When the Mozilla Updater is run, if the Updater's log file in the working directory points to a hardlink, data can be appended to an arbitrary local file. This vulnerability requires local system access. Note: this issue only affects Windows operating systems. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 45.5 and Firefox < 50.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2018-06-11T21:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T00:53:48.955Z

Reserved: 2016-06-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-5293

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Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-06-11T21:29:00.547

Modified: 2018-07-30T12:44:35.097

Link: CVE-2016-5293

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