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.
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=961676
- FEDORA-2014-5833 vendor-advisory
- GLSA-201504-01 vendor-advisory
- 59866 third-party-advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- 1030163 vdb-entry
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-35.html
- FEDORA-2014-5829 vendor-advisory
- 20210308 Unholy CRAP: Moziila's executable installers mailing-list
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161696/Mozilla-Arbitrary-Code-Execution-Privilege-Escalation.html