Bug 521695 (CVE-2009-3079)

Summary:	CVE-2009-3079 Firefox 3.5.3 3.0.14 Chrome privilege escalation with FeedWriter
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	urgent	Docs Contact:
Priority:	urgent
Version:	unspecified	CC:	mjc, security-response-team, vdanen
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2009-3079
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Description Josh Bressers 2009-09-07 18:10:26 UTC

Mozilla security researcher moz_bug_r_a4 reported that the
BrowserFeedWriter could be leveraged to run JavaScript code from web
content with elevated privileges. Using this vulnerability, an attacker
could construct an object containing malicious JavaScript and cause the
FeedWriter to process the object, running the malicious code with chrome
privileges.

Thunderbird does not support the BrowserFeedWriter object and is not
vulnerable in its default configuration. Thunderbird might be vulnerable if
the user has installed any add-on which adds a similarly implemented
feature and then enables JavaScript in mail messages. This is not the
default setting and we strongly discourage users from running JavaScript in
mail.

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2009-09-09 23:27:51 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2009:1430 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1430.html

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2009-09-11 23:27:00 UTC

epiphany-extensions-2.24.3-5.fc10, epiphany-2.24.3-10.fc10, Miro-2.0.5-4.fc10, ruby-gnome2-0.19.1-2.fc10, blam-1.8.5-14.fc10, evolution-rss-0.1.4-3.fc10, gecko-sharp2-0.13-12.fc10, gnome-web-photo-0.3-22.fc10, gnome-python2-extras-2.19.1-34.fc10, kazehakase-0.5.6-4.fc10.6, mozvoikko-0.9.5-14.fc10, google-gadgets-0.10.5-10.fc10, pcmanx-gtk2-0.3.8-13.fc10, mugshot-1.2.2-13.fc10, yelp-2.24.0-13.fc10, perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc10.5, firefox-3.0.14-1.fc10, xulrunner-1.9.0.14-1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2009-09-11 23:32:21 UTC

eclipse-3.4.2-15.fc11, epiphany-extensions-2.26.1-6.fc11, monodevelop-2.0-5.fc11, seahorse-plugins-2.26.2-5.fc11, epiphany-2.26.3-4.fc11, blam-1.8.5-14.fc11, chmsee-1.0.1-11.fc11, pcmanx-gtk2-0.3.8-8.fc11, gnome-web-photo-0.7-6.fc11, galeon-2.0.7-14.fc11, evolution-rss-0.1.4-3.fc11, gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-7.fc11, hulahop-0.4.9-8.fc11, mozvoikko-0.9.7-0.7.rc1.fc11, google-gadgets-0.11.0-5.fc11, kazehakase-0.5.7-2.fc11, perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc11.5, Miro-2.5.2-4.fc11, yelp-2.26.0-7.fc11, ruby-gnome2-0.19.1-2.fc11, firefox-3.5.3-1.fc11, xulrunner-1.9.1.3-1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.