Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2005-44
Privilege escalation via non-DOM property overrides
- Announced
- May 11, 2005
- Reporter
- moz_bug_r_a4
- Impact
- Critical
- Products
- Firefox, Mozilla Suite
- Fixed in
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- Firefox 1.0.4
- Mozilla Suite 1.7.8
Description
Additional checks were added to make sure Javascript eval and Script objects are run with the privileges of the context that created them, not the potentially elevated privilege of the context calling them in order to protect against an additional variant of MFSA 2005-41.
Workaround
Upgrade to Firefox 1.0.4 or Mozilla 1.7.8
References
Bug and exploit details withheld until May 18, 2005