Tracker / CVE-2016-5293
CVE-2016-5293
Medium 5.5
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.
Affected products and versions
| debian | debian_linux |
|---|---|
| mozilla | firefox · … → 45.5.0 |
| mozilla | firefox · … → 50.0 |
Analysis
This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.