CVE-2011-2605

CVE Details

Release Date:2011-06-30

Description


CRLF injection vulnerability in the nsCookieService::SetCookieStringInternal function in netwerk/cookie/nsCookieService.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.18 and 4.x through 4.0.1, and Thunderbird before 3.1.11, allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a string containing a \n (newline) character, which is not properly handled in a JavaScript document.cookie = expression, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-2374.

See more information about CVE-2011-2605 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD


CVSS v2.0 metrics


NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score: 4.3 Base Metrics: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector: Network Attack Complexity: Medium
Authentication: None required Confidentiality Impact: None
Integrity Impact: Partial Availability Impact: None

Errata information


PlatformErrataRelease Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (firefox)ELSA-2011-08852011-06-21
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (seamonkey)ELSA-2011-08882011-06-21
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (thunderbird)ELSA-2011-08872011-06-21
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)ELSA-2011-08852011-06-21
Oracle Linux version 5 (xulrunner)ELSA-2011-08852011-06-21
Oracle Linux version 6 (firefox)ELSA-2011-08852011-06-21
Oracle Linux version 6 (thunderbird)ELSA-2011-08862011-06-21
Oracle Linux version 6 (xulrunner)ELSA-2011-08852011-06-21



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