Bug 1479213 – CVE-2017-7798 Mozilla: XUL injection in the style editor in devtools (MFSA 2017-19)

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Bug 1479213 - (CVE-2017-7798) CVE-2017-7798 Mozilla: XUL injection in the style editor in devtools (MFSA 2017-19)

Summary:	CVE-2017-7798 Mozilla: XUL injection in the style editor in devtools (MFSA 20...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2017-7798

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

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Keywords:	Security

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Blocks:	1477026
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Reported:	2017-08-08 02:49 EDT by Doran Moppert
Modified:	2017-08-24 03:34 EDT (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2017:2456	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security update	2017-08-10 23:20:02 EDT

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Description Doran Moppert 2017-08-08 02:49:43 EDT

The Developer Tools feature suffered from XUL injection vulnerability due to improper sanitization of the web page source code. In the worst case this could allow arbitrary code execution when opening a malicious page with the style editor tool.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-19/#CVE-2017-7798


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Frederik Braun

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-10 19:21:23 EDT

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2017:2456 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2456

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