Improper Privilege Management The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package firefox (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published10 Sept 2020
- disclosed19 Mar 2014
Introduced: 19 Mar 2014
CVE-2014-1496 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream firefox package and not the firefox package as distributed by Ubuntu.
Mozilla Firefox before 28.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.4, Thunderbird before 24.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.25 might allow local users to gain privileges by modifying the extracted Mar contents during an update.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-1496
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=925747
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-16.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00016.html