National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-0012

Overview

The SPICE Firefox plug-in (spice-xpi) 2.4, 2.3, 2.2, and possibly other versions allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the usbrdrctl log file, which has a predictable name.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639869

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639869

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2011-0899

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0899

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1025304

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025304

External Source: BID

Name: 47269

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47269

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2011:0426

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0426.html