Firefox 0.9, Thunderbird 0.6 and other versions before 0.9, and Mozilla 1.7 before 1.7.5 save temporary files with world-readable permissions, which allows local users to read certain web content or attachments that belong to other users, e.g. content that is managed by helper applications such as PDF.
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2005-0143 Firefox 0.9, Thunderbird 0.6 and other versions before 0.9, and Mozilla 1.7 before 1.7.5 save temporary files with world-readable permissions, which allows local users to read certain web content or attachments that belong to other users, e.g. content that is managed by helper applications such as PDF.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-149-3 Ubuntu 4.10 update for Firefox vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T21:05:24.346Z

Reserved: 2005-01-25T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2005-0142

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2005-05-02T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2005-0142

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2005-01-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2005-0142 - Bugzilla

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