CVE-2004-0906

The XPInstall installer in Mozilla Firefox before the Preview Release, Mozilla before 1.7.3, and Thunderbird before 0.8 sets insecure permissions for certain installed files within xpi packages, which could allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files or execute arbitrary code.

• http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=231083Patch
• http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235781Patch
• http://secunia.com/advisories/12526/
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200409-26.xml
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/653160Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
• http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#mozilla1.7.3
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_36_mozilla.htmlVendor Advisory
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-323.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11192
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17375
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11668
• http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=231083Patch
• http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235781Patch
• http://secunia.com/advisories/12526/
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200409-26.xml
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/653160Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
• http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#mozilla1.7.3
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_36_mozilla.htmlVendor Advisory
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-323.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11192
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17375
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11668

Published

Dec 31, 2004

Last Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Status

Modified

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