Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 6, Thunderbird before 7.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.4 do not prevent manual add-on installation in response to the holding of the Enter key, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted web site that triggers an unspecified internal error.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Firefox | Mozilla | 4.0 (including) | 4.0 (including) |
| Firefox | Mozilla | 4.0-beta1 (including) | 4.0-beta1 (including) |
| Firefox | Mozilla | 4.0-beta10 (including) | 4.0-beta10 (including) |
| Firefox | Mozilla | 4.0-beta11 (including) | 4.0-beta11 (including) |
| Firefox | Mozilla | 4.0-beta12 (including) | 4.0-beta12 (including) |
| Firefox | Mozilla | 4.0-beta2 (including) | 4.0-beta2 (including) |
| Firefox | Mozilla | 4.0-beta3 (including) | 4.0-beta3 (including) |
| Firefox | Mozilla | 4.0-beta4 (including) | 4.0-beta4 (including) |
| Firefox | Mozilla | 4.0-beta5 (including) | 4.0-beta5 (including) |
| Firefox | Mozilla | 4.0-beta6 (including) | 4.0-beta6 (including) |
| Firefox | Mozilla | 4.0-beta7 (including) | 4.0-beta7 (including) |
| Firefox | Mozilla | 4.0-beta8 (including) | 4.0-beta8 (including) |
| Firefox | Mozilla | 4.0-beta9 (including) | 4.0-beta9 (including) |
| Firefox | Mozilla | 4.0.1 (including) | 4.0.1 (including) |
| Firefox | Mozilla | 5.0 (including) | 5.0 (including) |
| Firefox | Mozilla | 6.0 (including) | 6.0 (including) |
| Firefox | Ubuntu | devel | * |
| Firefox | Ubuntu | hardy | * |
| Firefox | Ubuntu | natty | * |
| Firefox | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-11/msg00020.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-10/msg00002.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46315
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:139
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:140
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:141
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:142
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-40.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672485
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14442
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-11/msg00020.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-10/msg00002.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46315
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:139
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:140
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:141
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:142
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-40.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672485
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14442