Bug 492212 (CVE-2009-1044)

Summary:	CVE-2009-1044 Firefox XUL garbage collection issue (cansecwest pwn2own)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bressers, kreilly, security-response-team
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	492213, 492214, 492215, 492216, 492217
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Comment 3 Josh Bressers 2009-03-26 23:50:57 UTC

During the 2009 CanSecWest PWN2OWN competition, Nils demonstrated an attack involving XUL <tree> _moveToEdgeShift and garbage-collection in order to execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox.

Comment 5 Josh Bressers 2009-03-27 23:04:24 UTC

This is now public:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-13.html

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2009-03-27 23:23:19 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Via RHSA-2009:0398 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0398.html

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2009-03-27 23:35:11 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2009:0397 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0397.html

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2009-03-30 17:23:31 UTC

seamonkey-1.1.15-3.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2009-03-31 20:29:33 UTC

seamonkey-1.1.15-3.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2009-03-31 20:38:01 UTC

seamonkey-1.1.15-3.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.