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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 13:46:48 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Stefan Kanthak <stefan.kanthak@...go.de>, security@...illa.org
Subject: Re: CVE request for Mozilla Firefox (Windows)

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On 07/10/2013 12:56 PM, Stefan Kanthak wrote:
> The installer of Mozilla Firefox writes the following command line 
> with unquoted spaces for uninstallation into the Windows registry:
> 
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Mozilla
> Firefox 22.0 (x86 en-US)] "UninstallString"="C:\\Program
> Files\\Mozilla Firefox\\uninstall\\helper.exe"
> 
> See <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=871084>, 
> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786407> and 
> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=868746>
> 
> Due to a well-known and well-documented idiosyncrasy of Windows' 
> CreateProcess() API this can result in the execution of a rogue 
> program "C:\Program.exe" or "C:\Program Files\Mozilla.exe" with
> the privileges of the caller. Since the caller of this command line
> typically has administrative rights this vulnerability can lead to
> a privilege escalation.
> 
> Affected versions: all current releases.
> 
> Fixed version: 23.0.
> 
> Stefan Kanthak
> 

Mozilla is a CNA (http://cve.mitre.org/cve/cna.html) so they'll need
to handle this one. Adding them to CC.

- -- 
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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