CVE-2015-4481 (GCVE-0-2015-4481)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2015-08-16 01:00
Modified
2024-08-06 06:18
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
References
security@mozilla.org http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.html Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.org http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00015.html Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.org http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00030.html
security@mozilla.org http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00031.html
security@mozilla.org http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-84.html Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.org http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.org http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033247
security@mozilla.org http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033372
security@mozilla.org https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1171518 Issue Tracking
security@mozilla.org https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06
security@mozilla.org https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37925/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.html Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00015.html Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00030.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00031.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-84.html Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033247
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033372
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1171518 Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37925/
Impacted products
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