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MFSA2018-17 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 52.9 (CVE-2018-12365)

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MFSA2018-17 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 52.9 (CVE-2018-12365)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
06/26/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/27/2018
Modified
12/04/2018

Description

A compromised IPC child process can escape the content sandbox and list the names of arbitrary files on the file system without user consent or interaction. This could result in exposure of private local files. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 60, Thunderbird < 52.9, Firefox ESR < 60.1, Firefox ESR < 52.9, and Firefox < 61.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-esr-upgrade-52_9

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