Memory corruption in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR - CVE-2017-5467
Published: April 19, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU6341
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-5467
CWE-ID: CWE-416
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Mozilla
Affected software:
Mozilla Firefox
Firefox ESR
Mozilla Firefox
Firefox ESR
Detailed vulnerability description
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.
How to mitigate CVE-2017-5467
Update to Firefox 53 or Firefox ESR 52.1.