Bug 188806

Summary:	CVE-2006-1728 Privilege escalation using crypto.generateCRMFRequest
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	mozilla	Assignee:	Christopher Aillon <caillon>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
Severity:	urgent	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	5	CC:	deisenst, security-response-team
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	reported=20060412,source=mozilla,embargo=yes,impact=critical
Fixed In Version:	FEDORA-2006-487	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2006-06-24 16:30:32 UTC	Type:	---
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Description Josh Bressers 2006-04-13 02:29:35 UTC

Privilege escalation using crypto.generateCRMFRequest


shutdown demonstrated that the crypto.generateCRMFRequest method can be used
to run arbitrary code with the privilege of the user, which could enable an
attacker to install malware.

Note:  Thunderbird shares the browser engine with Firefox and could be
vulnerable if JavaScript were to be enabled in mail. This is not the default
setting and we strongly discourage users from running JavaScript in mail.

Workaround

Disable JavaScript until you can upgrade to a version with the fix.

References

[1]https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327126


This issue also affects FC4

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2006-04-24 12:48:59 UTC

Lifting embargo

Comment 2 David Eisenstein 2006-06-24 16:30:32 UTC

This bug was fixed for FC4 in Fedora Update FEDORA-2006-488
<http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2006-May/msg00019.html>.

This bug was fixed for FC5 in Fedora Update FEDORA-2006-487
<http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2006-May/msg00018.html>.