CVE-2010-2794 (GCVE-0-2010-2794)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2010-08-30 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 02:46
VLAI
Summary
The SPICE (aka spice-xpi) plug-in 2.2 for Firefox allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an unspecified log file.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-06… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620356 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/41120 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2181 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://osvdb.org/67620 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
Date Public
2010-08-25 00:00
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