Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2012-67
Installer will launch incorrect executable following new installation
- Announced
- August 28, 2012
- Reporter
- Masato Kinugawa
- Impact
- Moderate
- Products
- Firefox, Firefox ESR, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird, Thunderbird ESR
- Fixed in
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- Firefox 15
- Firefox ESR 10.0.7
- SeaMonkey 2.13.2
- Thunderbird 16.0.2
- Thunderbird ESR 10.0.10
Description
Security researcher Masato Kinugawa reported that if a crafted executable is placed in the root partition on a Windows file system, the Firefox and Thunderbird installer will launch this program after a standard installation instead of Firefox or Thunderbird, running this program with the user's privileges.