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MFSA2015-57 SeaMonkey: Privilege escalation through IPC channel messages (CVE-2011-3079)

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MFSA2015-57 SeaMonkey: Privilege escalation through IPC channel messages (CVE-2011-3079)

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
05/01/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/22/2015
Modified
05/09/2019

Description

The Inter-process Communication (IPC) implementation in Google Chrome before 18.0.1025.168, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 38.0 and other products, does not properly validate messages, which has unspecified impact and attack vectors.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-seamonkey-upgrade-2_35_0

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