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MFSA2013-44 Thunderbird: Local privilege escalation through Mozilla Maintenance Service (CVE-2013-1672)

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MFSA2013-44 Thunderbird: Local privilege escalation through Mozilla Maintenance Service (CVE-2013-1672)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
05/16/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/18/2013
Modified
04/05/2017

Description

The Mozilla Maintenance Service in Mozilla Firefox before 21.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.6, Thunderbird before 17.0.6, and Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.6 on Windows allows local users to bypass integrity verification and gain privileges via vectors involving junctions.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-thunderbird-esr-upgrade-17_0_6
  • mozilla-thunderbird-upgrade-17_0_6

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