Introduction
A vulnerability has been discovered in various Mozilla products, which can be exploited by malicious people to gain knowledge of potentially sensitive information.
Please see the test below for an example of how this vulnerability can be exploited.
Test Case / Demonstration
Click the link below in order to test whether or not your system is vulnerable. The test will read arbitrary memory and display most of the printable characters from the memory chunk.
Each time you click the link below, 10 kilobyte of memory will be read and most printable characters will be displayed below.
Test Your System
Test Now - Left Click On This Link
Result
Credits
The test is based on PoC by Azafran.
What should you do?
Please view the appropriate Secunia advisory for information about how you can fix or mitigate the impact of this vulnerability. The Secunia advisory will be updated when the vendor issue patches.
View the Secunia advisory regarding your browser:
- [ SA14821] Mozilla
- [ SA14820] Firefox
- [ SA14804] Netscape
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