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MFSA2010-71 Thunderbird: Unsafe library loading vulnerabilities (CVE-2010-3182)

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MFSA2010-71 Thunderbird: Unsafe library loading vulnerabilities (CVE-2010-3182)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
10/21/2010
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/22/2012
Modified
02/13/2015

Description

A certain application-launch script in Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.14 and 3.6.x before 3.6.11, Thunderbird before 3.0.9 and 3.1.x before 3.1.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.9 on Linux places a zero-length directory name in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse shared library in the current working directory.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-thunderbird-upgrade-3_0_9
  • mozilla-thunderbird-upgrade-3_1_5

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