Bug 463192 (CVE-2008-4059)

Summary: CVE-2008-4059 Mozilla privilege escalation via XPCnativeWrapper pollution
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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URL: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-4059
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Description Josh Bressers 2008-09-22 15:20:24 UTC
Mozilla security researcher moz_bug_r_a4 reported a series of
vulnerabilities by which page content can pollute XPCNativeWrappers and
have arbitrary code run with chrome privileges. One variant reported by
moz_bug_r_a4 only affected Firefox 2.

This bug covers the Firefox 2 variant.

Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2008-09-23 17:59:21 UTC
This is from MFSA 2008-41

Comment 3 Josh Bressers 2008-09-24 01:04:46 UTC
This is now public

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2008-11-21 10:55:39 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 11:03:14 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.