CVE-2012-1957 Information

Description

An unspecified parser-utility class in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 13.0 Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.6 Thunderbird 5.0 through 13.0 Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.6 and SeaMonkey before 2.11 does not properly handle EMBED elements within description elements in RSS feeds which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a feed.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00011.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00012.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00013.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00016.html http://osvdb.org/84000 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1088.html http://secunia.com/advisories/49965 http://secunia.com/advisories/49968 http://secunia.com/advisories/49972 http://secunia.com/advisories/49977 http://secunia.com/advisories/49979 http://secunia.com/advisories/49992 http://secunia.com/advisories/49993 http://secunia.com/advisories/49994 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-47.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54583 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027256 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027257 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027258 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1509-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1509-2 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1510-1 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=750096 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A16844