PT-2011-2004 · Mozilla · Firefox+2

David Baron · Published 2011-12-07 · Updated 2017-09-19 · CVE-2010-5074

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 4.0 Thunderbird versions prior to 3.3 SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about visited web pages via a timing attack, due to the layout engine executing different code for visited and unvisited links during the processing of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequences.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 4.0, update to version 4.0 or later. For Thunderbird versions prior to 3.3, update to version 3.3 or later. For SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.1, update to version 2.1 or later.

Fix

Race Condition

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-362

Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-5074

Affected Products

Firefox

Seamonkey

Thunderbird

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-5074 · Security Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14456 · Note
• http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2010/03/31/plugging-the-css-history-leak · Note