Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package firefox-esr  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-FIREFOXESR-601079
  • published19 Aug 2020
  • disclosed5 Aug 2016

Introduced: 5 Aug 2016

CVE-2016-5253  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream firefox-esr package and not the firefox-esr package as distributed by Debian.

The Updater in Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 on Windows allows local users to write to arbitrary files via vectors involving the callback application-path parameter and a hard link.