Bug 188841 - CVE-2006-1728 Privilege escalation using crypto.generateCRMFRequest
Summary: CVE-2006-1728 Privilege escalation using crypto.generateCRMFRequest
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: 5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
urgent
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Assignee: Christopher Aillon
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URL:
Whiteboard: reported=20060412,source=mozilla,emba...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-04-13 03:35 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2006-04-27 12:52:05 UTC
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Description Josh Bressers 2006-04-13 03:35:39 UTC 
Privilege escalation using crypto.generateCRMFRequest


shutdown demonstrated that the crypto.generateCRMFRequest method can be used
to run arbitrary code with the privilege of the user, which could enable an
attacker to install malware.

Note:  Thunderbird shares the browser 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 with the fix.

References

[1]https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327126


This issue also affects FC4
Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2006-04-27 12:52:05 UTC 
These issues have been resolved in FEDORA-2006-411 for FC5 and FEDORA-2006-410
for FC4
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