Bug 1576259 – CVE-2018-5158 Mozilla: Malicious PDF can inject JavaScript into PDF Viewer

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Bug 1576259 - (CVE-2018-5158) CVE-2018-5158 Mozilla: Malicious PDF can inject JavaScript into PDF Viewer

Summary:	CVE-2018-5158 Mozilla: Malicious PDF can inject JavaScript into PDF Viewer

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2018-5158

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

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Depends On:	1573377 1573378 1573379 1573380 1578632
Blocks:	1573375
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Reported:	2018-05-09 03:12 EDT by Doran Moppert
Modified:	2018-05-24 01:17 EDT (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)

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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2018:1414	None	None	None	2018-05-14 10:39 EDT
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2018:1415	None	None	None	2018-05-14 11:14 EDT

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Description Doran Moppert 2018-05-09 03:12:53 EDT

The PDF viewer does not sufficiently sanitize PostScript calculator functions, allowing malicious JavaScript to be injected through a crafted PDF file. This JavaScript can then be run with the permissions of the PDF viewer by its worker.



External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-12/#CVE-2018-5158

Comment 1 Doran Moppert 2018-05-09 03:12:57 EDT

Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Wladimir Palant

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2018-05-14 10:39:53 EDT

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2018:1414 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1414

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2018-05-14 11:14:08 EDT

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:1415 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1415

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