cve-2005-0578
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2005-02-27 05:00
Modified
2024-08-07 21:21
Severity ?
Summary
Firefox before 1.0.1 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.6 use a predictable filename for the plugin temporary directory, which allows local users to delete arbitrary files of other users via a symlink attack on the plugtmp directory.
Impacted products
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