Bug 179175 - CVE-2006-0296 XULDocument.persist() RDF data injection
Summary: CVE-2006-0296 XULDocument.persist() RDF data injection
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: firefox
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Christopher Aillon
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard: impact=important,embargo=20060202,rep...
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-01-27 21:08 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: RHSA-2006-0200
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2006-02-02 15:46:22 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Attachments (Terms of Use)
PoC exploit (1.17 KB, application/octet-stream)
2006-01-27 21:27 UTC, Josh Bressers 		no flags Details
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Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2006:0200 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2006-02-02 05:00:00 UTC

Description Josh Bressers 2006-01-27 21:08:16 UTC 
XULDocument.persist() RDF data injection

XULDocument.persist() function doesn't verify whether the second
argument is a valid attribute name.  Thus, an attacker can inject
bogus RDF data into localstore.rdf in order to run arbitrary
javascript.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=319847


This issue also affects RHEL3
This issue also affects RHEL2.1
Comment 5 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-02 15:46:22 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0200.html
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