Bug 188803

Summary: CVE-2006-1729 File stealing by changing input type
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: mozillaAssignee: Christopher Aillon <caillon>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Version: 4.0CC: security-response-team
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Whiteboard: reported=20060412,source=mozilla,embargo=20060413,impact=moderate
Fixed In Version: RHSA-2006-0329 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Josh Bressers 2006-04-13 02:28:35 UTC 
File stealing by changing input type


Claus Jørgensen reports that a text input box can be pre-filled with a
filename  and then turned into a file-upload control with the contents
intact, allowing a malicious website the ability to steal any local file
whose name they can guess.

Jesse Ruderman reports a variation, changing the type of the input control
in an event handler to work around some of the initial checks.

Workaround

Upgrade to fixed version.

References

[1]https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325947
[2]https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328566


This issue also affects RHEL3
This issue also affects RHEL2.1
Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2006-04-17 17:39:35 UTC 
Lifting embargo
Comment 4 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-04-25 14:04:46 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-2006-0329.html