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MFSA2017-15 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 54 (CVE-2017-7767)

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MFSA2017-15 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 54 (CVE-2017-7767)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
06/11/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/12/2018
Modified
08/14/2018

Description

The Mozilla Maintenance Service can be invoked by an unprivileged user to overwrite arbitrary files with junk data using the Mozilla Windows Updater, which runs with the Maintenance Service's privileged access. Note: This attack requires local system access and only affects Windows. Other operating systems are not affected. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 52.2 and Firefox < 54.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-54_0

References

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