1404358 – (CVE-2016-9901) CVE-2016-9901 Mozilla: Data from Pocket server improperly sanitized before execution (MFSA 2016-94, MFSA 2016-95)

Bug 1404358 (CVE-2016-9901) - CVE-2016-9901 Mozilla: Data from Pocket server improperly sanitized before execution (MFSA 2016-94, MFSA 2016-95)

Summary: CVE-2016-9901 Mozilla: Data from Pocket server improperly sanitized before ex...

Keywords:
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA
Alias:	CVE-2016-9901
Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability
Sub Component:
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Priority:	medium
Severity:	medium
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks:	1403856
TreeView+	depends on / blocked

Reported:	2016-12-13 16:26 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2021-02-25 21:02 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)
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Last Closed:	2016-12-22 06:17:31 UTC
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System	ID	Private	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2016:2946	0	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security update	2016-12-14 15:01:08 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2016:2973	0	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: thunderbird security update	2016-12-21 15:00:43 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-12-13 16:26:08 UTC

HTML tags received from the Pocket server will be processed without sanitization and any JavaScript code executed will be run in the <code>about:pocket-saved</code> (unprivileged) page, giving it access to Pocket's messaging API through HTML injection.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-95/#CVE-2016-9901


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Wladimir Palant

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2016-12-14 10:02:37 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2016:2946 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2946.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2016-12-21 10:01:32 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2016:2973 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2973.html

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