CVE-2016-2809

NameCVE-2016-2809
DescriptionThe Mozilla Maintenance Service updater in Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 on Windows allows user-assisted remote attackers to delete arbitrary files by leveraging certain local file execution.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
firefox (PTS)sid132.0.2-1fixed
firefox-esr (PTS)bullseye115.14.0esr-1~deb11u1fixed
bullseye (security)128.4.0esr-1~deb11u1fixed
bookworm128.3.1esr-1~deb12u1fixed
bookworm (security)128.4.0esr-1~deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie128.4.0esr-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
firefoxsource(unstable)(not affected)
firefox-esrsource(unstable)(not affected)
iceweaselsource(unstable)(not affected)

Notes

- iceweasel <not-affected> (Only Firefox on Windows)
- firefox-esr <not-affected> (Only Firefox on Windows)
- firefox <not-affected> (Only Firefox on Windows)
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-40/

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