Use-after-free error in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2017-7802

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Use-after-free error in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2017-7802

Published: August 14, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU7832
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-2017-7802
CWE-ID: CWE-416
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 use-after-free error when manipulating the DOM during the resize event of an image element. 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
Gentoo Linux
Debian Linux
Arch Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
SUSE Linux
Ubuntu
Opensuse
Mozilla Thunderbird

How to mitigate CVE-2017-7802

Update to version 55.0.


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