Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2011-15

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2011-15

Title: Escalation of privilege through Java Embedding Plugin
Impact: Critical
Announced: April 28, 2011
Reporter: David Remahl
Products: Firefox, SeaMonkey

Fixed in: Firefox 3.6.17
Firefox 3.5.19
SeaMonkey 2.0.14
Description

David Remahl of Apple Product Security reported that the Java Embedding Plugin (JEP) shipped with the Mac OS X versions of Firefox could be exploited to obtain elevated access to resources on a user's system.

Firefox 4 was not affected by this issue.
References

JEP privilege escalation bugs
CVE-2011-0076