MFSA2015-84 Thunderbird: Arbitrary file overwriting through Mozilla Maintenance Service with hard links (CVE-2015-4481)
3
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
08/15/2015
07/25/2018
09/14/2015
04/05/2017
Description
Race condition in the Mozilla Maintenance Service in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2 on Windows allows local users to write to arbitrary files and consequently gain privileges via vectors involving a hard link to a log file during an update.
Solution(s)
- mozilla-thunderbird-upgrade-38_2
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