Memory leak in Mozilla Thunderbird - CVE-2017-7847

 

Memory leak in Mozilla Thunderbird - CVE-2017-7847

Published: December 25, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU9732
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-7847
CWE-ID: CWE-401
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Mozilla
Affected software:
Mozilla Thunderbird

Detailed vulnerability description

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to leak of local path string from specially crafted CSS and RSS feed. A remote attacker can reveal local path strings, which may contain user name.


How to mitigate CVE-2017-7847

Update to version 52.5.2.

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