Bug 438717 (CVE-2008-1235) - CVE-2008-1235 chrome privilege via wrong principal
Summary: CVE-2008-1235 chrome privilege via wrong principal
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2008-1235
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 438396 438397 438398 438401 438402 438403 438404 438938 438939 442855 442856 442857
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-03-24 18:15 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:24 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: 2.0.0.14-1.fc7
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2008-05-10 13:53:16 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2008:0207 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2008-03-27 01:08:19 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2008:0208 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: seamonkey security update 2008-03-27 23:17:00 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2008:0209 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: thunderbird security update 2008-04-03 14:55:43 UTC

Description Josh Bressers 2008-03-24 18:15:34 UTC 
Mozilla contributors Boris Zbarsky, Johnny Stenback, and moz_bug_r_a4 all
independently showed that the browser could be forced to run JavaScript code
using the wrong principal leading to universal XSS and arbitrary code execution.
Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2008-03-26 02:02:24 UTC 
This is now public:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-14.html
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2008-03-26 02:14:58 UTC 
blam-1.8.3-14.fc8,chmsee-1.0.0-1.30.fc8,devhelp-0.16.1-6.fc8,epiphany-2.20.3-2.fc8,epiphany-extensions-2.20.1-6.fc8,firefox-2.0.0.13-1.fc8,galeon-2.0.4-1.fc8.3,gnome-python2-extras-2.19.1-13.fc8,gnome-web-photo-0.3-9.fc8,gtkmozembedmm-1.4.2.cvs20060817-19.fc8,kazehakase-0.5.3-5.fc8,liferea-1.4.13-2.fc8,Miro-1.1.2-2.fc8,openvrml-0.17.5-4.fc8,ruby-gnome2-0.16.0-21.fc8,yelp-2.20.0-8.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2008-03-26 17:10:02 UTC 
chmsee-1.0.0-1.30.fc7, devhelp-0.13-15.fc7, epiphany-2.18.3-8.fc7, epiphany-extensions-2.18.3-8, firefox-2.0.0.13-1.fc7, galeon-2.0.3-16.fc7, gnome-python2-extras-2.14.3-9.fc7, gtkmozembedmm-1.4.2.cvs20060817-16.fc7, kazehakase-0.5.3-5.fc7, liferea-1.4.13-2.fc7, Miro-1.1.2-2.fc7, openvrml-0.16.7-4.fc7, ruby-gnome2-0.16.0-22.fc7, yelp-2.18.1-10.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2008-03-26 17:12:17 UTC 
gnome-python2-extras-2.19.1-13.fc8, ruby-gnome2-0.16.0-21.fc8, epiphany-2.20.3-2.fc8, gtkmozembedmm-1.4.2.cvs20060817-19.fc8, epiphany-extensions-2.20.1-6.fc8, liferea-1.4.13-2.fc8, Miro-1.1.2-2.fc8, yelp-2.20.0-8.fc8, devhelp-0.16.1-6.fc8, galeon-2.0.4-1.fc8.3, gnome-web-photo-0.3-9.fc8, chmsee-1.0.0-1.30.fc8, kazehakase-0.5.3-5.fc8, openvrml-0.17.5-4.fc8, blam-1.8.3-14.fc8, firefox-2.0.0.13-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2008-05-10 13:53:00 UTC 
thunderbird-2.0.0.14-1.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2008-05-10 13:54:41 UTC 
thunderbird-2.0.0.14-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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