CVE-2012-3973 Information

Description

The debugger in the developer-tools subsystem in Mozilla Firefox before 15.0 when remote debugging is disabled does not properly restrict access to the remote-debugging service which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging the presence of the HTTPMonitor extension and connecting to that service through the HTTPMonitor port.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00028.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00011.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00014.html http://osvdb.org/85005 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-66.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55308 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-2 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757128 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A17039