Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU6341

Memory corruption in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR - CVE-2017-5467

Published: April 19, 2017

Vulnerability identifier: #VU6341

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-5467

CWE-ID: CWE-416

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack.

The vulnerability exists due to memory corruption when using Skia content when drawing content outside of the bounds of a clipping region. A remote attacker can trigger memory corruption and cause browser crash.

Affected software

Mozilla Firefox
Firefox ESR
Arch Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
SUSE Linux
Ubuntu
Mozilla Thunderbird

How to mitigate CVE-2017-5467

Update to Firefox 53 or Firefox ESR 52.1.

External References

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-10/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-12/

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