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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-22753: Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-22753: Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/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

A Time-of-Check Time-of-Use bug existed in the Maintenance (Updater) Service that could be abused to grant Users write access to an arbitrary directory. This could have been used to escalate to SYSTEM access.<br>*This bug only affects Firefox on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 97, Thunderbird < 91.6, and Firefox ESR < 91.6.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-firefox
  • alpine-linux-upgrade-thunderbird

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