Open Bug 937421 Opened 11 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Updater permission: user A installed, then update comes in while user B using FF

Categories

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Application Update
Version:
25 Branch
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: patrick.j.daly, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20131025151332

Steps to reproduce:

(Similar to 394984 but on Linux, not Mac, different files).   I have a two user (well 3 actually) system with users A and B.   A installed Firefox non-root (this system several software add-ons installed non-root).   When user B is logged in using Firefox, and update from 24.0 to 25.0 came in.  The update failed to install.  Logged out and logged in as user A and update still would not install.  Problem found by an strace is that /tmp/MozUpdater/ was owned by user B.   So A could not use B's /tmp/MozUpdater and neither could B (as expected) update A's install.    Logged in a root, deleted /tmp/MozUpdater, then user A was able to update Firefox.
Component: General → Application Update
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
Severity: normal → S3
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