Bug 1204363 (CVE-2015-0818)

Summary: CVE-2015-0818 Mozilla: Privilege escalation through SVG navigation (MFSA 2015-28)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-03-21 11:31:13 UTC 
Security researcher Mariusz Mlynski reported, through HP Zero Day Initiative's Pwn2Own contest, a method to run arbitrary scripts in a privileged context. This bypassed the same-origin policy protections by using a flaw in the processing of SVG format content navigation. 


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-28


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Mariusz Mlynski as the original reporter.


Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of thunderbird package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2015-03-24 12:31:59 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2015:0718 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0718.html