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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 permissions for certain i…

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
MozillaMozilla
Versions 0.8, 0.9.2, 0.9.2.1, 0.9.3, 0.9.4, 0.9.4.1
MozillaThunderbird
Versions 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6

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