CVE-2004-0906 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2004-0906
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Description: The XPInstall installer in Mozilla Firefox before the Preview Release, Mozilla before 1.7.3, and Thunderbird before 0.8 sets insecure permissions for certain installed files within xpi packages, which could allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files or execute arbitrary code.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/17375 SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_36_mozilla.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA12526 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-323.html GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200409-26.xml CONFIRM http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=231083 http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235781 http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#mozilla1.7.3 CERT-VN 653160 BID 11192

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