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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-5456: Vulnerability in Firefox

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-5456: Vulnerability in Firefox

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/11/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
10/19/2018
Modified
02/17/2022

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(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-entire-11-4-11-4-0-0-1-15-0

References

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