Bug 715384 (CVE-2011-2486)

Summary:	CVE-2011-2486 nspluginwrapper: NPNVprivateModeBool variable not forwarded
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	stransky, tdosek
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	870073, 870074
Bug Blocks:	712354, 870103

Description Josh Bressers 2011-06-22 18:07:22 UTC

nspluginwrapper forwards variable values requested via NPN_GetValue from
firefox to the plugins it wraps around. One of the variables,
NPNVprivateModeBool, is used to tell the plugin if firefox is in private
browsing mode. The flash plugin (when it is wrapped by nspluginwrapper)
queries the browser via nsplugin wrapper and changes its behaviour
accordingly. However, the nspluginwrapper versions in RHEL-5 and RHEL-6 do
not implement this variable and simply return an error:

*** NSPlugin Viewer *** WARNING: unhandled variable 18 (<unknown variable>) in NPN_GetValue()

where the enum 18 is NPNVprivateModeBool. As a result, the flash player may
continue to run as if the browser is not in private mode.

The fix for this issue can be found here:
https://github.com/davidben/nspluginwrapper/commit/7e4ab8e1189846041f955e6c83f72bc1624e7a98

Comment 1 Martin Stransky 2011-06-22 20:09:52 UTC

Yeah, that's for me.

Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2011-06-28 16:13:04 UTC

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw.

Comment 3 Tomas Dosek 2012-09-11 06:41:54 UTC

Raising priority and severity of the case, as we have a customer affected by this issue.

Versions of packages used in their environment:

firefox-10.0.7-1.el6_3.x86_64
nspluginwrapper-1.3.0-14.el6.x86_64
nspluginwrapper-1.3.0-14.el6.i686
flash-plugin-11.2.202.238-1.el6.i686

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2012-11-13 14:06:26 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:1459 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1459.html

Comment 9 Vincent Danen 2015-02-26 23:03:17 UTC

Statement:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is now in Production 3 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This has been rated as having Low security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.