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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2011-2980: Mozilla Products: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2011-2980: Mozilla Products: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
08/18/2011
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the ThinkPadSensor::Startup function in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.20, Thunderbird 3.x before 3.1.12, allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging write access in an unspecified directory to place a Trojan horse DLL that is loaded into the running Firefox process.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-libs-nss
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-mail-client-mozilla-thunderbird
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-mail-client-mozilla-thunderbird-bin
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-mail-client-thunderbird
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-mail-client-thunderbird-bin
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-libs-xulrunner
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-libs-xulrunner-bin
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-www-client-firefox
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-www-client-firefox-bin
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-www-client-icecat
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-www-client-mozilla-firefox
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-www-client-mozilla-firefox-bin
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-www-client-seamonkey
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-www-client-seamonkey-bin

References

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