CVE-2017-5399 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer8 documents5 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
0.7%
top 27.27%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla ThunderbirdDebian Firefox
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14

Description

Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 51. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort that some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 52 and Thunderbird < 52.

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 Packages6 packages

▶debiandebian/firefox< firefox 52.0-1 (sid)
▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 52
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 52.0
▶Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 52.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+3
▶CVEListV5mozilla/thunderbirdunspecified — 52

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-6j9r-8v43-253q: Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 51↗2022-05-14
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OSV
firefox regression↗2017-03-30
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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2017-03-07
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OSV
CVE-2017-5399: Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 51↗2017-03-07
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Firefox regression↗2017-03-30
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2017-03-07
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Debian
CVE-2017-5399: firefox - Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 51. Some of these bugs showed eviden...↗2017
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