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MFSA2010-52 Firefox: Windows XP DLL loading vulnerability (CVE-2010-3131)

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MFSA2010-52 Firefox: Windows XP DLL loading vulnerability (CVE-2010-3131)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
08/26/2010
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/14/2012
Modified
02/13/2015

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.12 and 3.6.x before 3.6.9, Thunderbird before 3.0.7 and 3.1.x before 3.1.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.7 on Windows XP allows local users, and possibly remote attackers, to execute arbitrary code and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse dwmapi.dll that is located in the same folder as a .htm, .html, .jtx, .mfp, or .eml file.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-3_5_12
  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-3_6_9

References

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