PT-2005-1626 · Mozilla+1 · Firefox+2

Tavis Ormandy · Published 2005-02-27 · Updated 2017-10-11 · CVE-2005-0578

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

2.1

Low

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Firefox versions prior to 1.0.1 Mozilla Suite versions prior to 1.7.6

Description The issue allows local users to delete arbitrary files of other users via a symlink attack on the plugtmp directory, due to the use of a predictable filename for the plugin temporary directory.

Recommendations For Firefox versions prior to 1.0.1, update to version 1.0.1 or later to resolve the issue. For Mozilla Suite versions prior to 1.7.6, update to version 1.7.6 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-0578

RHSA-2005:176

RHSA-2005_176

RHSA-2005_384

Affected Products

Firefox

Suite

Red Hat

References · 58

• http://mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-28.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-0578 · Security Note
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-384.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2005-0146.html · Note
• http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-February/031459.html · Note
• https://redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2005-0527.html · Note
• https://redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2005-0591.html · Note
• https://redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2005-0233.html · Note
• https://redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2005-0586.html · Note
• https://redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2005-1159.html · Note
• https://redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2005-0989.html · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/14820 · Note