Mozilla Firefox / Thunderbird JAR File Handling Vulnerability

Last Update Date: 23 Dec 2011 10:22 Release Date: 23 Dec 2011 5819 Views

RISK: Medium Risk

TYPE: Clients - Browsers

A vulnerability has been identified in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

A malicious JAR file could be downloaded and executed if a user is convinced into holding down the "Enter" key via e.g. a malicious game.

NOTE: This only affects the Mac OS X version.