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CVE-2011-3640

Published: Oct 28, 2011

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS), as used in Google Chrome before 17 on Windows and Mac OS X, might allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse pkcs11.txt file in a top-level directory. NOTE: the vendor's response was "Strange behavior, but we're not treating this as a security bug."

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

openSUSE-SU-2012:0063

vendor-advisory

openSUSE-SU-2012:0030

vendor-advisory

third-party-advisory

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13414

vdb-entry

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http://blog.acrossecurity.com/2011/10/google-chrome-pkcs11txt-file-planting.html

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=97426

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641052

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