Bug 188841

Summary: CVE-2006-1728 Privilege escalation using crypto.generateCRMFRequest
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: firefoxAssignee: Christopher Aillon <caillon>
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Version: 5CC: djuran, security-response-team, wtogami
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Description Josh Bressers 2006-04-13 03:35:39 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 2006-04-27 12:52:05 UTC 
These issues have been resolved in FEDORA-2006-411 for FC5 and FEDORA-2006-410
for FC4