Upstream information

CVE-2012-4206 at MITRE

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0 and Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.11 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the default downloads directory.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 6.9
Vector AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 790140 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2
  • MozillaFirefox >= 10.0.11-0.3.1
  • MozillaFirefox-translations >= 10.0.11-0.3.1
  • libfreebl3 >= 3.14-0.3.1
  • libfreebl3-32bit >= 3.14-0.3.1
  • mozilla-nss >= 3.14-0.3.1
  • mozilla-nss-32bit >= 3.14-0.3.1
  • mozilla-nss-devel >= 3.14-0.3.1
  • mozilla-nss-tools >= 3.14-0.3.1
 Patchnames:
sdksp2-firefox-20121121
sledsp2-firefox-20121121
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP2
  • MozillaFirefox >= 10.0.11-0.3.1
  • MozillaFirefox-translations >= 10.0.11-0.3.1
  • libfreebl3 >= 3.14-0.3.1
  • libfreebl3-32bit >= 3.14-0.3.1
  • libfreebl3-x86 >= 3.14-0.3.1
  • mozilla-nss >= 3.14-0.3.1
  • mozilla-nss-32bit >= 3.14-0.3.1
  • mozilla-nss-devel >= 3.14-0.3.1
  • mozilla-nss-tools >= 3.14-0.3.1
  • mozilla-nss-x86 >= 3.14-0.3.1
 Patchnames:
sdksp2-firefox-20121121
slessp2-firefox-20121121
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2
  • mozilla-nss-devel >= 3.14-0.3.1
 Patchnames:
sdksp2-firefox-20121121

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 13:04:13 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:18:12 2025