CVE-2015-4481

Description

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

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00015.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00030.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00031.html

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1171518

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37925/

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-84.html

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033247

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033372

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2