>Race condition vulnerability in Mozilla Maintenance Service in Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird or Firefox ESR via vectors involving a hard link (Mac OS X)ID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:26458 | Date: (C)2015-09-03 (M)2024-01-29 |
Class: VULNERABILITY | Family: macos |
The host is installed with Mozilla Firefox before 40, Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2 or Thunderbird 38.x before 38.2 and is prone to a race condition vulnerability. A flaw is present in the applications, which fail to properly handle vectors involving a hard link to a log file during an update. Successful exploitation could allow local users to write to arbitrary files and consequently gain privileges.
Platform: |
Apple Mac OS 14 |
Apple Mac OS 13 |
Apple Mac OS 12 |
Apple Mac OS 11 |
Apple Mac OS X 10.15 |
Apple Mac OS X 10.14 |
Apple Mac OS X 10.13 |
Apple Mac OS X 10.11 |
Apple Mac OS X 10.12 |
Product: |
Mozilla Firefox ESR |
Mozilla Firefox |
Mozilla Thunderbird |