Input validation error in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2011-3079
Published: February 11, 2019 / Updated: May 26, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU17455
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2011-3079
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input by the Inter-process Communication (IPC) implementation. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted message and bypass security restrictions to conduct further attacks.
Affected software
Mozilla Firefox
Arch Linux
Arch Linux
How to mitigate CVE-2011-3079
Install updates from vendor's website.
Mozilla Firefox - update to 38.0
External References
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=117627
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/04/stable-channel-update_30.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00012.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00031.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00036.html
- http://osvdb.org/81645
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1012.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48992
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3260
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-57.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53309
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027001
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1087565
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75271
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14964
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird/#thunderbird31.7