Out-of-bounds read in Firefox ESR - CVE-2017-7754

 

Out-of-bounds read in Firefox ESR - CVE-2017-7754

Published: June 14, 2017 / Updated: May 26, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU7068
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-7754
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information on the target system.

The weakness exists due to out-of-bounds read in WebGL. A remote attacker can use a specially crafted ImageInfo object during WebGL operations and read arbitrary files.
 
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in information disclosure.

Affected software

Firefox ESR
Mozilla Firefox
Arch Linux
Gentoo Linux
Debian Linux
SUSE Linux
Ubuntu
Opensuse
Mozilla Thunderbird

How to mitigate CVE-2017-7754

Update to version 52.2.

Firefox ESR - update to 52.2.0
Mozilla Firefox - update to 54.0
Mozilla Thunderbird - update to 52.2

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