Bug 250648 (CVE-2007-3844)

Summary:	CVE-2007-3844 Privilege escalation through chrome-loaded about:blank windows
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	caillon
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Description Josh Bressers 2007-08-02 18:11:08 UTC

MFSA2007-26 describes a flaw in the way Firefox loads certain about:blank
windows.  This flaw could allow certain Firefox extensions to be leveraged to
execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox.

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-26.html

Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2007-10-26 09:22:38 UTC

This issue was addressed in all versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for
firefox, seamonkey and thunderbird in following erratas:

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0979.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0980.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0981.html

Updates for Fedora are also available now.