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...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-7798
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
urgent
urgent
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1477026
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-08-08 06:49 UTC by Doran Moppert
Modified: 2021-02-17 01:45 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-08-24 07:34:55 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:2456 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2017-08-11 03:20:02 UTC

Description Doran Moppert 2017-08-08 06:49:43 UTC 
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 23:21:23 UTC 
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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