CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-1196

7.5 HIGH Published 2002-10-28 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2002-10-28
Last modified: 2026-06-16
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

editproducts.cgi in Bugzilla 2.14.x before 2.14.4, and 2.16.x before 2.16.1, when the "usebuggroups" feature is enabled and more than 47 groups are specified, does not properly calculate bit values for large numbers, which grants extra permissions to users via known features of Perl math that set multiple bits.

Affected configurations

• mozilla bugzilla 2.14 • mozilla bugzilla 2.14.1 • mozilla bugzilla 2.14.2 • mozilla bugzilla 2.14.3 • mozilla bugzilla 2.16

References

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167485#c12 bugzilla.mozilla.org
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103349804226566&w=2 marc.info
http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-173 Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10233.php Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5843 www.securityfocus.com
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167485#c12 bugzilla.mozilla.org
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103349804226566&w=2 marc.info
http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-173 Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10233.php Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5843 www.securityfocus.com