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CVE-2015-4481

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 us

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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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Public exploit on Exploit-DB

    EDB-37925

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

References 12

bugzilla.mozilla.org

lists.opensuse.org

mozilla.org

Exploit-DB

oracle.com

securitytracker.com

security.gentoo.org