CVE-2017-5443 — Out-of-bounds Write 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
An out-of-bounds write vulnerability while decoding improperly formed BinHex format archives. 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 Packages9 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 9.0, Enterprise Linux 6.0, 7.0, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
5GHSA▶
GHSA-6cvj-hx37-fq45: An out-of-bounds write vulnerability while decoding improperly formed BinHex format archives↗2022-05-14
CVEList▶
CVE-2017-5443: An out-of-bounds write vulnerability while decoding improperly formed BinHex format archives↗2018-06-11
OSV▶
CVE-2017-5443: An out-of-bounds write vulnerability while decoding improperly formed BinHex format archives↗2018-06-11
📋Vendor Advisories
4Debian▶
CVE-2017-5443: firefox - An out-of-bounds write vulnerability while decoding improperly formed BinHex for...↗2017
💬Community
1Bugzilla▶
CVE-2017-5443 Mozilla: Out-of-bounds write during BinHex decoding (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12)↗2017-04-19