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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-7766: Vulnerability in Firefox

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-7766: Vulnerability in Firefox

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/19/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/19/2017
Modified
02/01/2022

Description

An attack using manipulation of "updater.ini" contents, used by the Mozilla Windows Updater, and privilege escalation through the Mozilla Maintenance Service to allow for arbitrary file execution and deletion by the Maintenance Service, which has 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)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-mail-thunderbird-52-2-0-0-175-3-22-0-3-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-mail-thunderbird-plugin-thunderbird-lightning-52-2-0-0-175-3-22-0-3-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-web-browser-firefox-52-2-0-0-175-3-22-0-2-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-web-browser-firefox-plugin-firefox-java-52-2-0-0-175-3-22-0-2-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-web-data-firefox-bookmarks-52-2-0-0-175-3-22-0-2-0

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