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CVE-2011-2980

This CVE name corresponds to:

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2011-08-16 mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2011-2980
Phase Assigned(20110801)

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the ThinkPadSensor::Startup function in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.20, Thunderbird 3.x before 3.1.12, 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 Firefox process.

References

Source Reference
CONFIRM http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-30.html
CONFIRM https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=642469
MANDRIVA MDVSA-2011:127
SUSE SUSE-SA:2011:037
SUSE SUSE-SU-2011:0967
OVAL oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14436