Closed Bug 1546904 Opened 7 years ago Closed 7 years ago

setup.exe 66.0.3 x64 stack based buffer overflow

Categories

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

66 Branch
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: daviduvi, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:66.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/66.0

Steps to reproduce:

Install Firefox from the full installer (Advanced installation options and other platforms: Firefox Setup 66.0.3.exe downloaded from www.mozilla.org) in a non-admin account of a 18.09 W10 PC without superuser privileges.

Actual results:

Setup started and required admin credentials. Cancel was pressed and installation started. After clicking finish, W10 reports a stack based buffer overflow was detected in a Message Box.

Expected results:

No buffer overflow error message.

Hello!

I tried to replicate using windows10 1803 and after a long time of updates i was able to test it on 18.09 also

I have admin access on Windows 10 64bi. So i created a second user as Standard, not admin.
Then i downloaded the exact same file. Firefox 66.0.3 english (US) 64bit : 43.9mb from

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/

  • When launched i got the usual mesage "do you want to allow this app to make changes on your device?"
  • I selected NO
  • Then firefox install started, and i installed it without any issues.

If that was the same thing you did, i was unable to replicate the problem.

regards
Pablo

Hi David

I was unable to replicate this problem with the described steps.
Could you please try again Using Firefox Nightly? you can download it from here: https://nightly.mozilla.org/

regards
Pablo

Marking this as Resolved-Incomplete due to the lack of response from the reporter.
If the issue is still reproducible with the latest Firefox version, feel free to reopen the bug with more information

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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