The Extensions manager in Mozilla Firefox 2.0 does not properly populate the list of local extensions, which allows attackers to construct an extension that hides itself by finding its name in the list and then calling RemoveElement, as demonstrated by the FFsniFF extension. NOTE: it was later reported that 3.0 is also affected.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-12-15T19:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T20:33:59.590Z

Reserved: 2006-12-15T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-6585

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2006-12-15T19:28:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2006-6585

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