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Secunia Advisory SA26288

Mozilla Products Addon Chrome-Loaded "about:blank" Cross-Context Scripting
Secunia Advisory SA26288
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2007-07-31
Last Update 2007-12-20
   
Popularity 24,224 views
Comments 0 comments

Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact Cross Site Scripting
System access
Where From remote
Authentication level This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Report reliability This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Approve distribution This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Software:
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.x
Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.x
Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.x
Mozilla Thunderbird 2.x

Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2007-3844 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
  

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in Mozilla products, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the handling of "about:blank" pages loaded by chrome in an addon. This can be exploited to execute script code under chrome privileges by e.g. clicking on a link opened in an "about:blank" window created and populated in certain ways by an addon.

Successful exploitation requires that certain addons are installed.

The vulnerability is reported in the following products and versions:
* Firefox 2.0.0.5
* Thunderbird 2.0.0.5
* Thunderbird 1.5.0.x
* SeaMonkey 1.1.3


Solution
Update to the latest versions:
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

Provided and/or discovered by
moz_bug_r_a4

Changelog
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Original Advisory
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-26.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-27.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388121

Other references
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