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nspluginwrapper: insecure Private Browsing

Package(s):nspluginwrapper CVE #(s):CVE-2011-2486
Created:November 13, 2012 Updated:November 22, 2012
Description: From the Red Hat advisory:

It was not possible for plug-ins wrapped by nspluginwrapper to discover whether the browser was running in Private Browsing mode. This flaw could lead to plug-ins wrapped by nspluginwrapper using normal mode while they were expected to run in Private Browsing mode.

Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2012:1459-01 2012-11-13
CentOS CESA-2012:1459 2012-11-13
Scientific Linux SL-nspl-20121113 2012-11-13
Oracle ELSA-2012-1459 2012-11-13
Mageia MGASA-2012-0336 2012-11-21
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