Bug 188792 - CVE-2006-1732 cross-site scripting through window.controllers
Summary: CVE-2006-1732 cross-site scripting through window.controllers
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mozilla
Version: 5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Christopher Aillon
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
URL:
Whiteboard: reported=20060412,source=mozilla,emba...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-04-13 02:23 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: FEDORA-2006-487
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2006-06-24 16:00:28 UTC
Type: ---
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Description Josh Bressers 2006-04-13 02:23:20 UTC
cross-site scripting through window.controllers


shutdown demonstrated how to use the window.controllers array to bypass
same-origin protections, allowing a malicious site to inject script into
content from another site. This could allow the malicious page to steal
information such as cookies or passwords from the other site, or perform
transactions on the user's behalf if the user were already logged in.

Note: Thunderbird shares the JavaScript engine with Firefox and could be
vulnerable if JavaScript were to be enabled in mail. This is not the default
setting and we strongly discourage users from running JavaScript in mail.

Workaround

Disable JavaScript until you can upgrade to a version containing the fix.

References

[1]https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313373


This issue also affects FC4

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2006-04-24 12:50:37 UTC
Lifting embargo

Comment 2 David Eisenstein 2006-06-24 16:00:28 UTC
This bug was fixed for FC4 in Fedora Update FEDORA-2006-488
<http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2006-May/msg00019.html>.

This bug was fixed for FC5 in Fedora Update FEDORA-2006-487
<http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2006-May/msg00018.html>.


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