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CVE-2004-0906

The XPInstall installer in Mozilla Firefox before the Preview Release, Mozilla before 1.7.3, and Thunderbird before 0.8 sets insecure permis

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Summary

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.

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Affected versions

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    Version range not reported

References 11

redhat.com

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com

securityfocus.com

novell.com

bugzilla.mozilla.org

oval.cisecurity.org

kb.cert.org

mozilla.org

security.gentoo.org

secunia.com