Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2011-08
ParanoidFragmentSink allows javascript: URLs in chrome documents
- Announced
- March 1, 2011
- Reporter
- Roberto Suggi Liverani
- Impact
- Moderate
- Products
- Firefox, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird
- Fixed in
-
- Firefox 3.5.17
- Firefox 3.6.14
- SeaMonkey 2.0.12
- Thunderbird 3.1.8
Description
Security researcher Roberto Suggi Liverani
reported that ParanoidFragmentSink
, a class used to
sanitize potentially unsafe HTML for display,
allows javascript:
URLs and other inline JavaScript when
the embedding document is a chrome document. While there are no
unsafe uses of this class in any released products, extension code
could have potentially used it in an unsafe manner.