Bug 1396549 (CVE-2016-9070) - CVE-2016-9070 firefox: Sidebar bookmark can have reference to chrome window
Summary: CVE-2016-9070 firefox: Sidebar bookmark can have reference to chrome window
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2016-9070
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1392803
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-11-18 15:38 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-02-25 19:43 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: firefox 50
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Last Closed: 2016-11-24 05:23:19 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-11-18 15:38:17 UTC
A maliciously crafted page loaded to the sidebar through a bookmark can reference a privileged chrome window and engage in limited JavaScript operations violating cross-origin protections.

External References:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/#CVE-2016-9070

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-11-18 15:38:30 UTC
Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Abdulrahman Alqabandi

Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-11-24 05:23:19 UTC
Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.


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