PT-2011-4219 · Mozilla · Thunderbird+1

Mitja Kolsek · Published 2011-08-18 · Updated 2017-09-19 · CVE-2011-2980

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.2

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 3.6.20 Thunderbird versions prior to 3.1.12

Description The issue allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging write access in an unspecified directory to place a Trojan horse DLL that is loaded into the running process. This is due to an untrusted search path vulnerability in the ThinkPadSensor::Startup function.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 3.6.20, update to version 3.6.20 or later. For Thunderbird versions prior to 3.1.12, update to version 3.1.12 or later.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-2980

Affected Products

Firefox

Thunderbird

References · 7

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2980 · Security Note
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=642469 · Patch
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00027.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:127 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-30.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00023.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14436 · Note