| Name | CVE-2011-3640 |
| Description | Untrusted search path vulnerability in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS), as used in Google Chrome before 17 on Windows and Mac OS X, might allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse pkcs11.txt file in a top-level directory. NOTE: the vendor's response was "Strange behavior, but we're not treating this as a security bug." |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-2339-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 647614 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| chromium-browser (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 57.0.2987.98-1~deb8u1 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 71.0.3578.80-1~deb9u1 | vulnerable | |
| nss (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 2:3.26-1+debu8u19 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 2:3.26.2-1.1+deb9u5 | fixed | |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 2:3.26.2-1.1+deb9u8 | fixed | |
| buster, buster (lts) | 2:3.42.1-1+deb10u9 | fixed | |
| buster (security) | 2:3.42.1-1+deb10u8 | fixed | |
| bullseye | 2:3.61-1+deb11u3 | fixed | |
| bullseye (security) | 2:3.61-1+deb11u4 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 2:3.87.1-1 | fixed | |
| bookworm (security) | 2:3.87.1-1+deb12u1 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie | 2:3.106-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| chromium-browser | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant | ||
| nss | source | lenny | 3.12.3.1-0lenny7 | DSA-2339-1 | ||
| nss | source | squeeze | 3.12.8-1+squeeze4 | DSA-2339-1 | ||
| nss | source | (unstable) | 3.13.1.with.ckbi.1.88-1 | low | 647614 |
[lenny] - nss <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[squeeze] - nss <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
attacker needs to get malicious file into cwd first
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Oct/734