Memory corruption in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2017-7810

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Memory corruption in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2017-7810

Published: September 28, 2017 / Updated: September 29, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU8633
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-2017-7810
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 vulnerability exists due to improper bounds checking. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted web page, trick the victim into opening it and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Affected software

Mozilla Firefox
Firefox ESR
Gentoo Linux
Arch Linux
Debian Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
SUSE Linux
Ubuntu
Mozilla Thunderbird

How to mitigate CVE-2017-7810

Update to version 56.0.


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