Summary
The host is installed with Mozilla firefox/thunderbird and is prone to remote code execution vulnerability.
Impact
Successful exploitation will let attackers to execute arbitrary code in the context of the user running an affected application.
Impact Level: Application
Solution
Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 3.6.25 or later, For updates refer to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html
Upgrade to Thunderbird version to 3.1.17 or later
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/
Insight
The flaw is due to not considering '.jar' files to be executable files which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted file.
Affected
Thunderbird version prior to 3.1.17
Mozilla Firefox version prior to 3.6.25
References
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2011-3666 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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