MFSA2016-89 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 50 (CVE-2016-5293)
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(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
06/11/2018
07/25/2018
07/12/2018
07/31/2018
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.
Solution(s)
- mozilla-firefox-upgrade-50_0
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