PT-2005-3341 · Mozilla+1 · Firefox+2

Sylvain Roger · Published 2005-08-03 · Updated 2017-07-11 · CVE-2005-2429

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 Firefox (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue arises when Firefox opens Microsoft Word documents and fails to properly set permissions on shared sections. This allows remote attackers to write arbitrary data to open applications in Microsoft Office.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-2429

Affected Products

Firefox

Office

Office Word

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2429 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/16256 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/18484 · Note
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112248181422193&w=2 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24346 · Note