Bug 133018 - Confusing privilege request dialog
Summary: Confusing privilege request dialog
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: mozilla
Version: 3.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Christopher Blizzard
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-09-20 22:03 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-09-22 02:33:47 UTC
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Description Josh Bressers 2004-09-20 22:03:15 UTC 
Signed scripts requesting enhanced abilities could construct the
request in a way that led to a confusing grant dialog, possibly
fooling the user into thinking the privilege requested was
inconsequential while actually obtaining explicit permission to run
and install software.

Workaround: Never grant enhanced abilities of any kind to untrusted
web pages.

See 
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#mozilla1.7.3
for more information.
Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2004-09-20 22:26:43 UTC 
This issue is going to be RHSA-2004:486.
Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2004-09-22 02:33:47 UTC 
This issue doesn't affect our mozilla.
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