Bug 463182 (CVE-2008-3835)

Summary:	CVE-2008-3835 mozilla: nsXMLDocument::OnChannelRedirect() same-origin violation
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	security-response-team
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-3835
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Bug Blocks:	460512, 460513, 460518, 460519, 460520

Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2008-09-23 17:35:11 UTC

From MFSA 2008-38:
Mozilla security researcher moz_bug_r_a4 reported that the same-origin
check in nsXMLDocument::OnChannelRedirect() could be bypassed. This
vulnerability could be used to execute JavaScript in the context of a
different website.

Comment 3 Josh Bressers 2008-09-24 00:53:43 UTC

This is now public

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2008-11-21 10:55:37 UTC

thunderbird-2.0.0.18-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2008-11-21 11:03:09 UTC

thunderbird-2.0.0.18-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Vincent Danen 2010-12-23 22:35:17 UTC

This was addressed via:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 2.1 (seamonkey) RHSA-2008:0882
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 3 (seamonkey) RHSA-2008:0882
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 (RHSA-2008:0882)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 (thunderbird) RHSA-2008:0908
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 5 (thunderbird) RHSA-2008:0908
RHEL Optional Productivity Applications version 5 (thunderbird) RHSA-2008:0908