CVE-2017-5433 — Use After Free in Mozilla Firefox
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
1.4%
top 19.27%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14
Description
A use-after-free vulnerability in SMIL animation functions occurs when pointers to animation elements in an array are dropped from the animation controller while still in use. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR < 45.9, Firefox ESR < 52.1, and Firefox < 53.
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 Packages8 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, Enterprise Linux 6.0, 7.0, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
5GHSA▶
GHSA-3prh-hhv2-x5qr: A use-after-free vulnerability in SMIL animation functions occurs when pointers to animation elements in an array are dropped from the animation contr↗2022-05-14
OSV▶
CVE-2017-5433: A use-after-free vulnerability in SMIL animation functions occurs when pointers to animation elements in an array are dropped from the animation contr↗2018-06-11
CVEList▶
CVE-2017-5433: A use-after-free vulnerability in SMIL animation functions occurs when pointers to animation elements in an array are dropped from the animation contr↗2018-06-11
📋Vendor Advisories
4Debian▶
CVE-2017-5433: firefox - A use-after-free vulnerability in SMIL animation functions occurs when pointers ...↗2017
💬Community
1Bugzilla▶
CVE-2017-5433 Mozilla: Use-after-free in SMIL animation functions (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12)↗2017-04-19