Bug 470876 (CVE-2008-5015)

Summary:	CVE-2008-5015 Mozilla file: URIs inherit chrome privileges
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:	security-response-team
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OS:	Linux
URL:	http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-5015
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Description Josh Bressers 2008-11-10 18:20:39 UTC

Security researcher, Luke Bryan, reported that file: URIs are given chrome
privileges when opened in the same tab as a chrome page or privileged
about: page. This vulnerability could be used by an attacker to run
arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges. The severity of this issue was
determined to be moderate as it requires an attacker to have malicious code
saved locally, then have a user open a chrome: document or privileged
about: URI, and then open the malicious file in the same privileged tab.

Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2008-11-13 01:36:57 UTC

This is now public:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-51.html

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2008-11-14 12:50:41 UTC

xulrunner-1.9.0.4-1.fc9, firefox-3.0.4-1.fc9, epiphany-extensions-2.22.1-5.fc9, epiphany-2.22.2-5.fc9, cairo-dock-1.6.3.1-1.fc9.1, chmsee-1.0.1-6.fc9, devhelp-0.19.1-6.fc9, evolution-rss-0.1.0-4.fc9, galeon-2.0.7-3.fc9, gnome-python2-extras-2.19.1-21.fc9, gnome-web-photo-0.3-15.fc9, google-gadgets-0.10.1-5.fc9.1, gtkmozembedmm-1.4.2.cvs20060817-22.fc9, kazehakase-0.5.6-1.fc9.1, Miro-1.2.7-2.fc9, mozvoikko-0.9.5-4.fc9, mugshot-1.2.2-3.fc9, ruby-gnome2-0.17.0-3.fc9, totem-2.23.2-8.fc9, yelp-2.22.1-6.fc9, seamonkey-1.1.13-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 4 Vincent Danen 2010-12-25 16:46:58 UTC

This was addressed via:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 (firefox) RHSA-2008:0978
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 (firefox) RHSA-2008:0978