CVE-2014-1489

N/A Unknown

Published: February 06, 2014 Modified: April 29, 2026

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 27.0 does not properly restrict access to about:home buttons by script on other pages, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (session restore) via a crafted web site.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00004.html

Source: security@mozilla.org

Third Party Advisory

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00010.html

Source: security@mozilla.org

Third Party Advisory

http://osvdb.org/102874

Source: security@mozilla.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/56888

Source: security@mozilla.org

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-10.html

Source: security@mozilla.org

Vendor Advisory

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html

Source: security@mozilla.org

Third Party Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65329

Source: security@mozilla.org

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029717

Source: security@mozilla.org

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2102-1

Source: security@mozilla.org

Third Party Advisory

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2102-2

Source: security@mozilla.org

Third Party Advisory

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=959531

Source: security@mozilla.org

Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/90888

Source: security@mozilla.org

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01

Source: security@mozilla.org

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00004.html