CVE-2017-5401 — Mozilla Firefox vulnerability

CWE-38812 documents8 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
2.2%
top 15.56%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
10
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla Firefox ESRMozilla Thunderbird+7 more
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14

Description

A crash triggerable by web content in which an "ErrorResult" references unassigned memory due to a logic error. The resulting crash may be exploitable. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 52, Firefox ESR < 45.8, Thunderbird < 52, and Thunderbird < 45.8.

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 Packages10 packages

▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 52
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 52.0+1
▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefox_esrunspecified — 45.8
▶CVEListV5mozilla/thunderbirdunspecified — 52+1
▶NVDmozilla/thunderbird< 45.8.0

Also affects: Debian Linux 9.0, Enterprise Linux 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5

🔴Vulnerability Details

6
GHSA
GHSA-qhch-r8x3-jvqq: A crash triggerable by web content in which an "ErrorResult" references unassigned memory due to a logic error↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2017-5401: A crash triggerable by web content in which an "ErrorResult" references unassigned memory due to a logic error↗2018-06-11
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CVEList
CVE-2017-5401: A crash triggerable by web content in which an "ErrorResult" references unassigned memory due to a logic error↗2018-06-11
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OSV
firefox regression↗2017-03-30
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OSV
thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2017-03-24
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📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2017-03-24
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Red Hat
Mozilla: Memory Corruption when handling ErrorResult (MFSA 2017-06)↗2017-03-07
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2017-03-07
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Debian
CVE-2017-5401: firefox - A crash triggerable by web content in which an "ErrorResult" references unassign...↗2017
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-5401 Mozilla: Memory Corruption when handling ErrorResult (MFSA 2017-06)↗2017-03-07
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