PT-2010-4624 · Mozilla+2 · Firefox+4

Published

2010-10-19

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Updated

2024-12-12

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CVE-2010-3182

CVSS v2.0

6.9

Medium

VectorAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 3.5.14 Mozilla Firefox versions 3.6.x prior to 3.6.11 Thunderbird versions prior to 3.0.9 Thunderbird versions 3.1.x prior to 3.1.5 SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.0.9
Description The issue allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse shared library in the current working directory. This is due to a certain application-launch script placing a zero-length directory name in the LD LIBRARY PATH.
Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 3.5.14, update to version 3.5.14 or later. For Mozilla Firefox versions 3.6.x prior to 3.6.11, update to version 3.6.11 or later. For Thunderbird versions prior to 3.0.9, update to version 3.0.9 or later. For Thunderbird versions 3.1.x prior to 3.1.5, update to version 3.1.5 or later. For SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.0.9, update to version 2.0.9 or later.

Exploit

Fix

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Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-3182
OPENSUSE-SU-2014_1100-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1
RHSA-2010:0780
RHSA-2010:0781
RHSA-2010:0782
RHSA-2010:0861
RHSA-2010:0896
RHSA-2010_0780
RHSA-2010_0781
RHSA-2010_0782
RHSA-2010_0861
RHSA-2010_0896

Affected Products

Firefox
Red Hat
Seamonkey
Suse
Thunderbird