Bug 1443338 (CVE-2017-5454)

Summary: CVE-2017-5454 Mozilla: Sandbox escape allowing file system read access through file picker (MFSA 2017-12)
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 2017-04-19 06:25:23 UTC 
A mechanism to bypass file system access protections in the sandbox to use the file picker to access different files than those selected in the file picker through the use of relative paths. This allows for read only access to the local file system.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-11/#CVE-2017-5454


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Haik Aftandilian
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2017-04-21 00:53:07 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:1106 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1106
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2017-05-08 06:49:24 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:1201 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1201