Description
The URL parsing implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 42.0 improperly recognizes escaped characters in hostnames within Location headers, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via vectors involving a redirect.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034069 ↗
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10 ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2785-1 ↗
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-129.html ↗
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00015.html ↗
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1211871 ↗