CVE-2011-2605

CVE Details

Release Date:	2011-06-30
Impact:	Critical	What is this?

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.

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

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	4.3
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	Partial
Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (firefox)	ELSA-2011-0885	2011-06-21
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (seamonkey)	ELSA-2011-0888	2011-06-21
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2011-0887	2011-06-21
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)	ELSA-2011-0885	2011-06-21
Oracle Linux version 5 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2011-0885	2011-06-21
Oracle Linux version 6 (firefox)	ELSA-2011-0885	2011-06-21
Oracle Linux version 6 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2011-0886	2011-06-21
Oracle Linux version 6 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2011-0885	2011-06-21