CVE-2014-1520

Publication date 30 April 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024


Ubuntu priority

Description

maintenservice_installer.exe in the Maintenance Service Installer in Mozilla Firefox before 29.0 and Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.5 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges by placing a Trojan horse DLL file into a temporary directory at an unspecified point in the update process.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
firefox 14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
13.10 saucy
Not affected
12.10 quantal
Not affected
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid Ignored end of life

Notes


chrisccoulson

Affects the Mozilla Maintenance Service on Windows only


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