Buffer overflow in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2017-7792

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Buffer overflow in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2017-7792

Published: August 14, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU7839
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-2017-7792
CWE-ID: CWE-120
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 buffer overflow when viewing a certificate in the certificate manager if the certificate has an extremely long object identifier (OID). 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-2017-7792

Update to version 55.0.


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