CVE-2017-5392 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Mozilla Firefox
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
1.8%
top 16.98%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14
Description
Weak proxy objects have weak references on multiple threads when they should only have them on one, resulting in incorrect memory usage and corruption, which leads to potentially exploitable crashes. Note: This issue only affects Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are not affected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 51.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages3 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
1GHSA▶
GHSA-cxh5-m5cc-6w2r: Weak proxy objects have weak references on multiple threads when they should only have them on one, resulting in incorrect memory usage and corruption↗2022-05-14
📋Vendor Advisories
1Debian▶
CVE-2017-5392: firefox - Weak proxy objects have weak references on multiple threads when they should onl...↗2017