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title: "CVE-2011-2980\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2011-2980

Publication date 18 August 2011

Last updated 24 July 2024

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Ubuntu priority

**Medium**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the ThinkPadSensor::Startup function
in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.20, Thunderbird 3.x before 3.1.12, 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
Firefox process.

[Read the notes from the security team](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2011-2980?format=md#notes)

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| firefox | 11.04 natty | Fixed 6.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1 |
| 10.10 maverick | Fixed 3.6.20+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1 |
| 10.04 LTS lucid | Fixed 3.6.20+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 |
| 8.04 LTS hardy | Ignored end of life |
| seamonkey | 11.04 natty | Ignored |
| 10.10 maverick | Ignored |
| 10.04 LTS lucid | Ignored |
| 8.04 LTS hardy | Ignored end of life |
| thunderbird | 11.04 natty | Fixed 3.1.13+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1 |
| 10.10 maverick | Fixed 3.1.13+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1 |
| 10.04 LTS lucid | Fixed 3.1.13+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 |
| 8.04 LTS hardy | Ignored end of life |
| xulrunner-1.9.2 | 11.04 natty | Ignored |
| 10.10 maverick | Fixed 1.9.2.20+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1 |
| 10.04 LTS lucid | Fixed 1.9.2.20+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 |
| 8.04 LTS hardy | Ignored end of life |
| xulrunner-2.0 | 11.04 natty | Ignored |
| 10.10 maverick | Not in release |
| 10.04 LTS lucid | Not in release |
| 8.04 LTS hardy | Not in release |

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* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)

## Notes

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### [jdstrand](https://launchpad.net/~jdstrand)

Windows only

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2980)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2980)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2011-2980)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2980)

### Other references

* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-2980>