Bug 576696 (CVE-2010-0171) - CVE-2010-0171 firefox/thunderbird/seamonkey: XSS using addEventListener and setTimeout on a wrapped object (MFSA 2010-12)
Summary: CVE-2010-0171 firefox/thunderbird/seamonkey: XSS using addEventListener and s...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2010-0171
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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URL: http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/det...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-03-24 21:04 UTC by Vincent Danen
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:35 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2010-03-24 22:10:04 UTC
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Description Vincent Danen 2010-03-24 21:04:37 UTC
Mozilla security researcher moz_bug_r_a4 reports that by using an
appropriately wrapped object it was possible to bypass the fix for MFSA
2007-19. Prior to Firefox 3.6 this gives an attacker the ability to perform
cross-site scripting attacks against arbitrary sites as in the original
MFSA 2007-19 attack. Due to unrelated changes in the browser engine used by
Firefox 3.6, attacks in that version are limited to capturing keystroke
events from a cross-origin frame or window rather than full DOM access.
Those events might be sufficient to illicitly obtain passwords or other
sensitive information entered into web forms.

Upstream advisory:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-12.html

This was fixed in upstream Firefox 3.0.18, and via RHSA-2010:0112 in Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0112.html

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2010-03-24 22:10:04 UTC
A patch was applied to correct this in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4
(Seamonkey) via RHSA-2010:0113:

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0113.html

A patch was applied to correct this in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (Thunderbird)
via RHSA-2010:0154:

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0154.html

A patch was applied to correct this in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Thunderbird)
via RHSA-2010:0153:

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0153.html


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