CVE-2017-5444 — 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 Buffer13 documents8 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
OSV9.8
EPSS
1.9%
top 16.58%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14
Description
A buffer overflow vulnerability while parsing "application/http-index-format" format content when the header contains improperly formatted data. This allows for an out-of-bounds read of data from memory. 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:N/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages10 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 9.0, Enterprise Linux 6.0, 7.0, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5
🔴Vulnerability Details
6GHSA▶
GHSA-7chm-34j8-4f22: A buffer overflow vulnerability while parsing "application/http-index-format" format content when the header contains improperly formatted data↗2022-05-14
CVEList▶
CVE-2017-5444: A buffer overflow vulnerability while parsing "application/http-index-format" format content when the header contains improperly formatted data↗2018-06-11
OSV▶
CVE-2017-5444: A buffer overflow vulnerability while parsing "application/http-index-format" format content when the header contains improperly formatted data↗2018-06-11
📋Vendor Advisories
5💬Community
1Bugzilla▶
CVE-2017-5444 Mozilla: Buffer overflow while parsing application/http-index-format content (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12)↗2017-04-19