CVE-2011-3640 (GCVE-0-2011-3640)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2011-10-28 00:00
Modified
2024-08-06 23:37
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Untrusted search path vulnerability in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS), as used in Google Chrome before 17 on Windows and Mac OS X, might allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse pkcs11.txt file in a top-level directory. NOTE: the vendor's response was "Strange behavior, but we're not treating this as a security bug."
References
secalert@redhat.com http://blog.acrossecurity.com/2011/10/google-chrome-pkcs11txt-file-planting.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=97426 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.com http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8483 Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641052 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/13154861 Broken Link
secalert@redhat.com https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/13155432 Broken Link
secalert@redhat.com https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A13414 Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://blog.acrossecurity.com/2011/10/google-chrome-pkcs11txt-file-planting.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=97426 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8483 Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641052 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/13154861 Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/13155432 Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A13414 Third Party Advisory
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