255355 - Modal windows could be opened only with chrome

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: Security: CAPS, defect)

Description

[Tomasz Trojanowski]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl-PL; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040702
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl-PL; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040702

The following code should open modal window if the javascript is signed and the
user grants proper priviledge. But it doesn't work:
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netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege("UniversalXPConnect");
window.open("modaltest.html","test","chrome, centerscreen, dependent,
dialog, modal, alwaysRaised");
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Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. prepare test javascript with above code
2. sign it with proper certificate
3. launch it from HTTP server.
4. grant priviledge

Actual Results:  
the opened window won't be modal

Expected Results:  
open modal window

Comment 1

[Tomasz Trojanowski]

I'm adding CC to [e-mail](hint from Boris Zbarsky ;) )
I couln't reassign this bug because it is UNCONFIRMED yet.

Comment 2

[Stefan Borggraefe]

*** Bug 255354 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[timeless]

Does it work if you ask for UniversalBrowserWrite instead?

note that even if i were to confirm this bug you still wouldn't be able to
reassign the bug to someone else.

While people who write code expect UBR to be implied by UBW and UBW to be
implied by UXPC, i can find no evidence of code which enforces this behavior.

http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsblame.cgi?file=mozilla/embedding/components/windowwatcher/src/nsWindowWatcher.cpp&rev=1.91&mark=1308-1311,1317-1321,1327#1308

Comment 4

[Tomasz Trojanowski]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Does it work if you ask for UniversalBrowserWrite instead?

Nope.
I even put all possible priviledges, and none of them helped.

netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege("UniversalBrowserWrite");
netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege("UniversalBrowserRead");
netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege("UniversalXPConnect");

At first I contacted Borys Zbarski via e-mail, and he suggested to reassign this
bug to [e-mail].  He also mentioned:
"I just checked the code in Mozilla, and we only allow
chrome:// to open modal windows, not anything with universal priveleges.
That's probably a bug;"

Comment 5

[Tomasz Trojanowski]

restored previous severity (unproper value was obviously caused by mouse
operator failure :))
now it will be correct(i hope).

Comment 6

[Dan M]

Try it without spaces in the features string.

Comment 7

[Dan M]

Re: previous comment: I forgot, we strip spaces out of the features string
ourselves.

Modal windows can be opened from normal, unprivileged content loaded using the
file: protocol, with (temporary) UniversalBrowserWrite privileges. The same goes
for http: content if the signed.applets.codebase_principal_support pref is true.
I thought trusted signed content would work without any extra hurdles. We could
use the opinion of someone who knows what they're doing and is set up for
testing with the whole cert thing on this and bug 249038.

Comment 8

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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