Memory corruption in Firefox ESR - CVE-2017-5470

 

Memory corruption in Firefox ESR - CVE-2017-5470

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


Vulnerability identifier: #VU7080
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-5470
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The weakness exists due to boundary error. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with privileges of the current user

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.

Affected software

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

How to mitigate CVE-2017-5470

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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