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authorMark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>2015-08-07 23:06:02 -0400
committerMark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>2015-08-07 23:08:41 -0400
commita5e55dfbb7318f8c79e9d56f8c8dcd5b20566efb (patch)
tree757e9677aa340a68e66f41b9c1c3765cd05e76ea /gnu/packages/patches
parentff6f33cf80d04717cad90177c934ae5b2dd6086c (diff)
downloadguix-a5e55dfbb7318f8c79e9d56f8c8dcd5b20566efb.tar.gz
gnu: icecat: Add fix for CVE-2015-4495.
* gnu/packages/patches/icecat-CVE-2015-4495.patch: New file.
* gnu-system.am (dist_patch_DATA): Add it.
* gnu/packages/gnuzilla.scm (icecat)[source]: Add patch.  Move the 'patches'
  field above the snippet.
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-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/patches/icecat-CVE-2015-4495.patch28
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diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/icecat-CVE-2015-4495.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/icecat-CVE-2015-4495.patch
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index 0000000000..e7514d9a5e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gnu/packages/patches/icecat-CVE-2015-4495.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+Backported from upstream commits labelled "Bug 1178058" from the esr38 branch
+by Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> and Bobby Holley <bobbyholley@gmail.com>.
+
+--- icecat-31.8.0/docshell/base/nsDocShell.cpp
++++ icecat-31.8.0/docshell/base/nsDocShell.cpp
+@@ -1546,12 +1546,21 @@
+ 
+     if (owner && mItemType != typeChrome) {
+         nsCOMPtr<nsIPrincipal> ownerPrincipal = do_QueryInterface(owner);
+-        if (nsContentUtils::IsSystemOrExpandedPrincipal(ownerPrincipal)) {
++        if (nsContentUtils::IsSystemPrincipal(ownerPrincipal)) {
+             if (ownerIsExplicit) {
+                 return NS_ERROR_DOM_SECURITY_ERR;
+             }
+             owner = nullptr;
+             inheritOwner = true;
++        } else if (nsContentUtils::IsExpandedPrincipal(ownerPrincipal)) {
++            if (ownerIsExplicit) {
++                return NS_ERROR_DOM_SECURITY_ERR;
++            }
++            // Don't inherit from the current page.  Just do the safe thing
++            // and pretend that we were loaded by a nullprincipal.
++            owner = do_CreateInstance("@mozilla.org/nullprincipal;1");
++            NS_ENSURE_TRUE(owner, NS_ERROR_FAILURE);
++            inheritOwner = false;
+         }
+     }
+     if (!owner && !inheritOwner && !ownerIsExplicit) {