Bug 147727
Summary: | CAN-2005-0232 fireflashing vulnerability (CAN-2005-0527) | ||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | Josh Bressers <bressers> |
Component: | firefox | Assignee: | Christopher Aillon <caillon> |
Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 4.0 | CC: | eric.eisenhart |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | impact=important,public=20050207 | ||
Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2005-03-01 19:02:00 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Josh Bressers
2005-02-10 20:01:54 UTC
From the mozilla security advisory: Plugins (such as flash) can be used to load privileged content into a frame. Once loaded various spoofs can be applied to get the user to interact with the privileged content. Michael Krax's "Fireflashing" example demonstrates that an attacker can open about:config in a frame, hide it with an opacity setting, and if the attacker can get the victim to click at a particular spot (design some kind of simple game) you could toggle boolean preferences, some of which would make further attacks easier. The "firescrolling" example demonstrates arbitrary code execution (in this case downloading a file) by convincing the user to scroll twice. Workaround: Upgrade to a fixed version. Disable JavaScript. References: http://www.mikx.de/fireflashing/ http://www.mikx.de/firescrolling/ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280664 CAN-2005-0527 An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html |