Bug 179175

Summary: CVE-2006-0296 XULDocument.persist() RDF data injection
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: firefoxAssignee: Christopher Aillon <caillon>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Version: 4.0CC: security-response-team
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Whiteboard: impact=important,embargo=20060202,reported=20060127,source=mozilla
Fixed In Version: RHSA-2006-0200 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Josh Bressers 2006-01-27 21:08:16 UTC 
XULDocument.persist() RDF data injection

XULDocument.persist() function doesn't verify whether the second
argument is a valid attribute name.  Thus, an attacker can inject
bogus RDF data into localstore.rdf in order to run arbitrary
javascript.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=319847


This issue also affects RHEL3
This issue also affects RHEL2.1
Comment 5 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-02 15:46:22 UTC 
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-2006-0200.html