Bug 1670633 (CVE-2018-18505) - CVE-2018-18505 Mozilla: Privilege escalation through IPC channel messages
Summary: CVE-2018-18505 Mozilla: Privilege escalation through IPC channel messages
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2018-18505
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1668153 1668154 1668155 1668156 1670636 1670637 1670638 1670639 1670640
Blocks: 1668151 1670486
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Reported: 2019-01-29 23:18 UTC by Doran Moppert
Modified: 2022-03-13 16:53 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:46:44 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2019:0218 0 None None None 2019-01-30 17:38:57 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2019:0219 0 None None None 2019-01-30 17:56:22 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2019:0269 0 None None None 2019-02-04 20:41:49 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2019:0270 0 None None None 2019-02-04 20:42:03 UTC

Description Doran Moppert 2019-01-29 23:18:56 UTC 
An earlier fix for an Inter-process Communication (IPC) vulnerability, CVE-2011-3079, added authentication to communication between IPC endpoints and server parents during IPC process creation. This authentication is insufficient for channels created after the IPC process is started, leading to the authentication not being correctly applied to later channels. This could allow for a sandbox escape through IPC channels due to lack of message validation in the listener process.



External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-02/#CVE-2018-18505
Comment 1 Doran Moppert 2019-01-29 23:18:59 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Jed Davis
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2019-01-30 17:38:54 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2019:0218 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0218
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2019-01-30 17:56:21 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2019:0219 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0219
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2019-02-04 20:41:48 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2019:0269 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0269
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2019-02-04 20:42:02 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2019:0270 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0270
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