PT-2004-1840 · Mozilla · Thunderbird+2

Jesse Ruderman · Published 2004-08-03 · Updated 2017-10-11 · CVE-2004-0762

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla versions prior to 1.7 Firefox versions prior to 0.9 Thunderbird versions prior to 0.7

Description The issue allows remote web sites to install arbitrary extensions by using interactive events to manipulate the XPInstall Security dialog box.

Recommendations For Mozilla versions prior to 1.7, update to version 1.7 or later to resolve the issue. For Firefox versions prior to 0.9, update to version 0.9 or later to resolve the issue. For Thunderbird versions prior to 0.7, update to version 0.7 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2004-0762

Affected Products

Firefox

Mozilla Firefox

Thunderbird

References · 14

• ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2005.49/SCOSA-2005.49.txt · Vendor Advisory
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109900315219363&w=2 · Vendor Advisory
• http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162020 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-0762 · Security Note
• http://novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_36_mozilla.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-421.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-07/0264.html · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/11999 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16623 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A4403 · Note
• http://squarefree.com/2004/07/01/race-conditions-in-security-dialogs · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/15495 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10032 · Note
• http://mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#mozilla1.7 · Note