Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2007-25

XPCNativeWrapper pollution

Announced
July 17, 2007
Reporter
shutdown and moz_bug_r_a4
Impact
Moderate
Products
Firefox, SeaMonkey
Fixed in
  • Firefox 2.0.0.5
  • SeaMonkey 1.1.3

Description

Mozilla security researchers shutdown and moz_bug_r_a4 reported two separate ways to modify an XPCNativeWrapper such that subsequent access by the browser would result in executing user-supplied code.

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