Bug 1404358 – CVE-2016-9901 Mozilla: Data from Pocket server improperly sanitized before execution (MFSA 2016-94, MFSA 2016-95)

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Bug 1404358 - (CVE-2016-9901) CVE-2016-9901 Mozilla: Data from Pocket server improperly sanitized before execution (MFSA 2016-94, MFSA 2016-95)

Summary:	CVE-2016-9901 Mozilla: Data from Pocket server improperly sanitized before ex...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2016-9901

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Blocks:	1403856
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Reported:	2016-12-13 11:26 EST by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2016-12-22 01:17 EST (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2016-12-22 01:17:31 EST
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2016:2946	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security update	2016-12-14 10:01:08 EST
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2016:2973	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: thunderbird security update	2016-12-21 10:00:43 EST

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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-12-13 11:26:08 EST

HTML tags received from the Pocket server will be processed without sanitization and any JavaScript code executed will be run in the <code>about:pocket-saved</code> (unprivileged) page, giving it access to Pocket's messaging API through HTML injection.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-95/#CVE-2016-9901


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Wladimir Palant

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2016-12-14 05:02:37 EST

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2016:2946 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2946.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2016-12-21 05:01:32 EST

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2016:2973 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2973.html

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