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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-5293: Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jan 3, 2017
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Aug 13, 2025

Description

When the Mozilla Updater is run, if the Updater's log file in the working directory points to a hardlink, data can be appended to an arbitrary local file. This vulnerability requires local system access. Note: this issue only affects Windows operating systems. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 45.5 and Firefox < 50.

Solutions

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