Denial of service in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2017-7790
Published: August 14, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU7851
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-7790
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Mozilla
Affected software:
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The weakness exists due to improper input validation. A local attacker can copy stack memory data into the crash reporter and cause the browser to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
The weakness exists due to improper input validation. A local attacker can copy stack memory data into the crash reporter and cause the browser to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
How to mitigate CVE-2017-7790
Update to version 55.0.