Revision Date: | 2018-06-11 | Version: | 1 | Title: | CVE-2017-7761 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium. | Description: | The Mozilla Maintenance Service "helper.exe" application creates a temporary directory writable by non-privileged users. When this is combined with creation of a junction (a form of symbolic link), protected files in the target directory of the junction can be deleted by the Mozilla Maintenance Service, which has privileged access. Note: This attack requires local system access and only affects Windows. Other operating systems are not affected. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 52.2 and Firefox < 54.
| Family: | unix | Class: | vulnerability | Status: | | Reference(s): | CVE-2017-7761
| Platform(s): | Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
| Product(s): | | Definition Synopsis | Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed. AND Package Information
NOT firefox package in xenial, while related to the CVE in some way, is not affected.
OR NOT firefox-globalmenu package in xenial, while related to the CVE in some way, is not affected.
OR NOT firefox-mozsymbols package in xenial, while related to the CVE in some way, is not affected.
OR NOT firefox-testsuite package in xenial, while related to the CVE in some way, is not affected.
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