CVE-2017-5436 — Out-of-bounds Write in Mozilla Firefox
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
OSV9.8
EPSS
1.0%
top 23.04%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14
Description
An out-of-bounds write in the Graphite 2 library triggered with a maliciously crafted Graphite font. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This issue was fixed in the Graphite 2 library as well as Mozilla products. 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:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages9 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, Enterprise Linux 6.0, 7.0, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5
🔴Vulnerability Details
5GHSA▶
GHSA-7cg6-cw82-vmx2: An out-of-bounds write in the Graphite 2 library triggered with a maliciously crafted Graphite font↗2022-05-14
CVEList▶
CVE-2017-5436: An out-of-bounds write in the Graphite 2 library triggered with a maliciously crafted Graphite font↗2018-06-11
OSV▶
CVE-2017-5436: An out-of-bounds write in the Graphite 2 library triggered with a maliciously crafted Graphite font↗2018-06-11
📋Vendor Advisories
4💬Community
1Bugzilla▶
CVE-2017-5436 Mozilla: Out-of-bounds write with malicious font in Graphite 2 (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12)↗2017-04-19