Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2011-52
Title: Code execution via NoWaiverWrapper
Impact: Critical
Announced: November 8, 2011
Reporter: moz_bug_r_a4
Products: Firefox, Thunderbird
Fixed in: Firefox 8.0
Thunderbird 8.0
Description
Mozilla security researcher moz_bug_r_a4 reported that an internal privilege check failed to respect the NoWaiverWrappers introduced with Firefox 4. This could result in elevated privilege being granted to web content.
References
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672182
CVE-2011-3655