Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.7 and Thunderbird before 1.5.0.7 makes it easy for users to accept self-signed certificates for the auto-update mechanism, which might allow remote user-assisted attackers to use DNS spoofing to trick users into visiting a malicious site and accepting a malicious certificate for the Mozilla update site, which can then be used to install arbitrary code on the next update.
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Affected Vendors & Products
Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
EUVD |
EUVD-2006-4555 | Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.7 and Thunderbird before 1.5.0.7 makes it easy for users to accept self-signed certificates for the auto-update mechanism, which might allow remote user-assisted attackers to use DNS spoofing to trick users into visiting a malicious site and accepting a malicious certificate for the Mozilla update site, which can then be used to install arbitrary code on the next update. |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-350-1 | Thunderbird vulnerabilities |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-351-1 | firefox vulnerabilities |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-352-1 | Thunderbird vulnerabilities |
Fixes
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-07T19:14:47.523Z
Reserved: 2006-09-06T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2006-4567
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2006-09-15T18:07:00.000
Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193
Link: CVE-2006-4567
OpenCVE Enrichment
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Weaknesses
EUVD
Ubuntu USN