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Mozilla Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (MFSA 2011-19)

Published Jun 30, 2011

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.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

References (11)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Jun 30, 2011
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Jun 30, 2011
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Critical
Public date Jun 21, 2011