Bug 741917 (CVE-2011-2372)

Summary:	CVE-2011-2372 Mozilla: Code installation through holding down Enter (MFSA 2011-40)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	urgent
Version:	unspecified	CC:	caillon, gecko-bugs-nobody, stransky, vdanen
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-09-28 12:57:11 UTC

Mariusz Mlynski reported that if you could convince a user to hold down the Enter key--as part of a game or test, perhaps--a malicious page could pop up a download dialog where the held key would then activate the default Open action. For some file types this would be merely annoying (the equivalent of a pop-up) but other file types have powerful scripting capabilities. And this would provide an avenue for an attacker to exploit a vulnerability in applications not normally exposed to potentially hostile internet content. 

References:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-40.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=657462,662309,663899

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2011-09-28 23:12:39 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2011:1342 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1342.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2011-09-28 23:44:20 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

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

Via RHSA-2011:1341 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1341.html