Bug 250648 (CVE-2007-3844) - CVE-2007-3844 Privilege escalation through chrome-loaded about:blank windows
Summary: CVE-2007-3844 Privilege escalation through chrome-loaded about:blank windows
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2007-3844
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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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-08-02 18:11 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2021-11-12 19:42 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-10-26 09:22:38 UTC
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Description Josh Bressers 2007-08-02 18:11:08 UTC
MFSA2007-26 describes a flaw in the way Firefox loads certain about:blank
windows.  This flaw could allow certain Firefox extensions to be leveraged to
execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox.

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-26.html

Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2007-10-26 09:22:38 UTC
This issue was addressed in all versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for
firefox, seamonkey and thunderbird in following erratas:

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0979.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0980.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0981.html

Updates for Fedora are also available now.



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