Bug 862360 (CVE-2014-1483) - VUL-0: CVE-2014-1483: Firefox/Seamonkey: Information disclosure with *FromPoint on iframes
Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2014-1483: Firefox/Seamonkey: Information disclosure with *FromP...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2014-1483
Product: SUSE Security Incidents
Classification: Novell Products
Component: Incidents (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P3 - Medium : Normal
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Assignee: Wolfgang Rosenauer
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Reported: 2014-02-05 14:14 UTC by Victor Pereira
Modified: 2014-03-26 09:12 UTC (History)
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Description Victor Pereira 2014-02-05 14:14:48 UTC 
CVE-2014-1483

Security researcher Jordan Milne reported an information leak where document.caretPositionFromPoint and document.elementFromPoint functions could be used on a cross-origin iframe to gain information on the iframe's DOM and other attributes through a timing attack, violating same-origin policy. 

References:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-05.html
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-1483
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1060943
Comment 1 Swamp Workflow Management 2014-02-05 23:09:05 UTC 
bugbot adjusting priority
Comment 2 Marcus Meissner 2014-03-26 09:12:14 UTC 
we shipped  firefox 28