Bug 463190 (CVE-2008-4058) - CVE-2008-4058 Mozilla privilege escalation via XPCnativeWrapper pollution
Summary: CVE-2008-4058 Mozilla privilege escalation via XPCnativeWrapper pollution
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2008-4058
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
urgent
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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URL: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=C...
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Blocks: 460512 460513 460518 460519 460520
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-09-22 15:18 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:26 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-12-23 22:47:31 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2008:0879 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2008-09-24 01:47:37 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2008:0882 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: seamonkey security update 2008-09-24 02:04:56 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2008:0908 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: thunderbird security update 2008-10-01 15:35:17 UTC

Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2008-09-23 17:54:58 UTC 
From MFSA 2008-41:
Mozilla security researcher moz_bug_r_a4 reported a series of
vulnerabilities by which page content can pollute XPCNativeWrappers and
have arbitrary code run with chrome privileges. One variant reported by
moz_bug_r_a4 only affected Firefox 2.

This bug is to track the attack that works against both Firefox 2 and 3.
Comment 3 Josh Bressers 2008-09-24 00:58:16 UTC 
This is now public
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2008-11-21 10:55:28 UTC 
thunderbird-2.0.0.18-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2008-11-21 11:03:12 UTC 
thunderbird-2.0.0.18-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 6 Vincent Danen 2010-12-23 22:47:31 UTC 
This was addressed via:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 (firefox) RHSA-2008:0879
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 (firefox) RHSA-2008:0879
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 2.1 (seamonkey) RHSA-2008:0882
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 3 (seamonkey) RHSA-2008:0882
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4  (RHSA-2008:0882)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 (thunderbird) RHSA-2008:0908
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 5 (thunderbird) RHSA-2008:0908
RHEL Optional Productivity Applications version 5 (thunderbird) RHSA-2008:0908
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