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MFSA2017-12 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 52.1 (CVE-2017-5456)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Apr 19, 2017
Added
Apr 20, 2017
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

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

mozilla-firefox-esr-upgrade-52_1
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