Bug 546724 (CVE-2009-3986)

Summary:	CVE-2009-3986 Mozilla Chrome privilege escalation via window.opener
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	mjc, security-response-team, vdanen
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Description Josh Bressers 2009-12-11 19:35:46 UTC

Security researcher David James reported that a content window which is opened by a chrome window retains a reference to the chrome window via the window.opener property. Via this reference, the newly opened content window can access functions inside the chrome window, such as eval, and use these functions to perform a privilege escalation and run arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges. Because an attacker would need to find a browser dialog which opens a chrome privileged window then navigate the new window to an attacker-controlled page in order to leverage this vulnerability, the severity of this issue was determined to be moderate.

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2009-12-16 05:04:10 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2009:1674 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1674.html

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2009-12-18 04:31:47 UTC

firefox-3.5.6-1.fc11, epiphany-extensions-2.26.1-9.fc11, yelp-2.26.0-10.fc11, ruby-gnome2-0.19.3-5.fc11, perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc11.8, mozvoikko-0.9.7-0.10.rc1.fc11, monodevelop-2.0-8.fc11, Miro-2.5.2-7.fc11, kazehakase-0.5.8-4.fc11, google-gadgets-0.11.1-4.fc11, hulahop-0.4.9-11.fc11, gnome-web-photo-0.7-9.fc11, galeon-2.0.7-19.fc11, gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-10.fc11, evolution-rss-0.1.4-9.fc11, blam-1.8.5-17.fc11, pcmanx-gtk2-0.3.8-11.fc11, epiphany-2.26.3-7.fc11, chmsee-1.0.1-14.fc11, xulrunner-1.9.1.6-1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2009-12-18 04:37:37 UTC

gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-14.fc12, mozvoikko-1.0-7.fc12, gnome-web-photo-0.9-4.fc12, galeon-2.0.7-19.fc12, Miro-2.5.2-7.fc12, firefox-3.5.6-1.fc12, perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc12.10, blam-1.8.5-21.fc12, xulrunner-1.9.1.6-1.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.