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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-5456: firefox security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-5456: firefox security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/11/2018
Created
10/05/2019
Added
10/04/2019
Modified
10/04/2019

Description

A mechanism to bypass file system access protections in the sandbox using the file system request constructor through an IPC message. This allows for read and write access to the local file system. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 52.1 and Firefox < 53.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp1-upgrade-firefox

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