Closed Bug 1099958 Opened 10 years ago Closed 10 years ago

Firefox creates /tmp/CGLog_Firefox_<pid> files on Mac

Categories

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Untriaged
Version:
33 Branch
Platform:
x86
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1092855

People

(Reporter: mdietze, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0
Build ID: 20140716183446

Steps to reproduce:

Run Firefox Version 32.0 or greater on a Mac machine.


Actual results:

A file /tmp/CGLog_Firefox_<pid> is created containing a log of mouse actions and keystrokes. This is sensitive data. 

Maybe this has been caused by some debug code that was not removed from the final product, however the existence of this file and its contents raise serious doubt and insecurity on privacy.


Expected results:

The file should thus no longer be created. Also some information about how and why this happened seems necessary as this is an issue because of which people may have serious doubs on whether FF protects their privacy. 

Please see also this thread in the support forum: https://support.mozilla.org/de/questions/1028140#answer-653622
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Group: core-security → core-security-release
Group: core-security-release
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