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CVE-2016-5293

by Fred · 11/06/2018

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. Date published : 2018-06-11 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94336

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246945

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