Bug 851927 (CVE-2012-3974)

Summary: CVE-2012-3974 Mozilla: Installer will launch incorrect executable following new installation (MFSA 2012-67)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-08-27 04:25:00 UTC 
Security researcher Masato Kinugawa reported that if a crafted executable is placed in the root partition on a Windows file system, the Firefox and Thunderbird installer will launch this program after a standard installation instead of Firefox or Thunderbird, running this program with the user's privileges. 

This issue does not affect the linux version of Firefox and Thunderbird.

Reference:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-67.html

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Mozilla security researcher Masato Kinugawa as the original reporter of this flaw.

Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of Firefox and Thunderbird package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.