Description
The XPInstall installer in Mozilla Firefox before the Preview Release, Mozilla before 1.7.3, and Thunderbird before 0.8 sets insecure permissions for certain installed files within xpi packages, which could allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files or execute arbitrary code.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-323.html ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17375 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11192 ↗
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_36_mozilla.html ↗
- http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=231083 ↗
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11668 ↗
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/653160 ↗
- http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#mozilla1.7.3 ↗
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200409-26.xml ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/12526/ ↗
- http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235781 ↗