CVE-2011-3001 Information

Description

Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 6 Thunderbird before 7.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.4 do not prevent manual add-on installation in response to the holding of the Enter key which allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted web site that triggers an unspecified internal error.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-11/msg00020.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-10/msg00002.html http://secunia.com/advisories/46315 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:139 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:140 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:141 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:142 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-40.html https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672485 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A14442