MFSA2016-55 Firefox: File overwrite and privilege escalation through Mozilla Windows updater (CVE-2016-2826)
7
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
06/07/2016
07/25/2018
06/08/2016
10/30/2017
Description
The maintenance service in Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.2 on Windows does not prevent MAR extracted-file modification during updater execution, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse file.
Solution(s)
- mozilla-firefox-esr-upgrade-45_2
- mozilla-firefox-upgrade-47_0
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