Untrusted search path vulnerability in Updater.exe in the Windows Updater Service in Mozilla Firefox 12.0, Thunderbird 12.0, and SeaMonkey 2.9 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse wsock32.dll file in an application directory.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2012-1952 Untrusted search path vulnerability in Updater.exe in the Windows Updater Service in Mozilla Firefox 12.0, Thunderbird 12.0, and SeaMonkey 2.9 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse wsock32.dll file in an application directory.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T19:17:27.163Z

Reserved: 2012-03-30T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2012-1943

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2012-06-05T23:55:01.733

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2012-1943

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