CVE-2011-2980

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 3.6.20 Thunderbird versions prior to 3.1.12

Description The issue allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging write access in an unspecified directory to place a Trojan horse DLL that is loaded into the running process. This is due to an untrusted search path vulnerability in the ThinkPadSensor::Startup function.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 3.6.20, update to version 3.6.20 or later. For Thunderbird versions prior to 3.1.12, update to version 3.1.12 or later.