Memory corruption in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2017-5471
Published: June 15, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU7104
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-2017-5471
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.
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
Mozilla Firefox
Arch Linux
Ubuntu
Arch Linux
Ubuntu
How to mitigate CVE-2017-5471
Update to version 54.0.
Mozilla Firefox - update to 54.0