Buffer overflow in Firefox ESR and Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2017-7826

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Buffer overflow in Firefox ESR and Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2017-7826

Published: November 15, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU9330
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-2017-7826
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 unspecified boundary errors when processing web pages. A remote unauthenticated attacker can create a specially crafted web page, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


Affected software

Firefox ESR
Mozilla Firefox
Debian Linux
Gentoo Linux
Arch Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
SUSE Linux
Ubuntu
Opensuse
Mozilla Thunderbird

How to mitigate CVE-2017-7826

Update to version Firefox 57 or Firefox ESR 52.5.


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