Bug 660417 (CVE-2010-3771)

Summary: CVE-2010-3771 Mozilla Chrome privilege escalation with window.open and <isindex> element (MFSA 2010-76)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Josh Bressers 2010-12-06 18:57:43 UTC 
Security researcher echo reported that a web page could open a window with
an about:blank location and then inject an <isindex> element into that page
which upon submission would redirect to a chrome: document. The effect of
this defect was that the original page would wind up with a reference to a
chrome-privileged object, the opened window, which could be leveraged for
privilege escalation attacks.

Mozilla security researcher moz_bug_r_a4 provided proof-of-concept code
demonstrating how the above vulnerability could be used to run arbitrary
code with chrome privileges.
Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2010-12-09 22:03:35 UTC 
This is now public:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-76.html
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2010-12-09 23:09:05 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2010:0966 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0966.html