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MFSA2016-90 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 45.5 (CVE-2016-5293)

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MFSA2016-90 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 45.5 (CVE-2016-5293)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
11/15/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/16/2016
Modified
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-esr-upgrade-45_5

References

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