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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-22736: Uncontrolled Search Path Element

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-22736: Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
12/22/2022
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

Description

If Firefox was installed to a world-writable directory, a local privilege escalation could occur when Firefox searched the current directory for system libraries. However the install directory is not world-writable by default.<br>*This bug only affects Firefox for Windows in a non-default installation. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 96.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-firefox

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