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MFSA2012-09 SeaMonkey: Firefox Recovery Key.html is saved with unsafe permission (CVE-2012-0450)

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MFSA2012-09 SeaMonkey: Firefox Recovery Key.html is saved with unsafe permission (CVE-2012-0450)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
02/01/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/03/2012
Modified
04/05/2017

Description

Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 9.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.7 on Linux and Mac OS X set weak permissions for Firefox Recovery Key.html, which might allow local users to read a Firefox Sync key via standard filesystem operations.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-seamonkey-upgrade-2_7_0

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