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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1171518 ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00031.html ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.html ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00030.html ↗
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-84.html ↗
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37925/ ↗
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html ↗
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033247 ↗
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06 ↗
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033372 ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00015.html ↗