Bug 492212 (CVE-2009-1044) - CVE-2009-1044 Firefox XUL garbage collection issue (cansecwest pwn2own)
Summary: CVE-2009-1044 Firefox XUL garbage collection issue (cansecwest pwn2own)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2009-1044
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 492213 492214 492215 492216 492217
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-03-25 22:15 UTC by Mark J. Cox
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:29 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-08-22 16:32:14 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Mozilla Foundation 484320 0 None None None Never
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2009:0397 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2009-03-27 23:35:33 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2009:0398 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: seamonkey security update 2009-03-27 23:23:39 UTC

Comment 3 Josh Bressers 2009-03-26 23:50:57 UTC
During the 2009 CanSecWest PWN2OWN competition, Nils demonstrated an attack involving XUL <tree> _moveToEdgeShift and garbage-collection in order to execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox.

Comment 5 Josh Bressers 2009-03-27 23:04:24 UTC
This is now public:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-13.html

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2009-03-27 23:23:19 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Via RHSA-2009:0398 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0398.html

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2009-03-27 23:35:11 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2009:0397 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0397.html

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2009-03-30 17:23:31 UTC
seamonkey-1.1.15-3.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2009-03-31 20:29:33 UTC
seamonkey-1.1.15-3.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2009-03-31 20:38:01 UTC
seamonkey-1.1.15-3.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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