CVE-2017-5444Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Mozilla Firefox

Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
OSV9.8
EPSS
1.9%
top 16.58%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
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

CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified53
NVDmozilla/firefox< 45.9.0+2
CVEListV5mozilla/firefox_esrunspecified45.9+1
Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 53.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2+3
CVEListV5mozilla/thunderbirdunspecified52.1

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

6
GHSA
GHSA-7chm-34j8-4f22: A buffer overflow vulnerability while parsing "application/http-index-format" format content when the header contains improperly formatted data2022-05-14
CVEList
CVE-2017-5444: A buffer overflow vulnerability while parsing "application/http-index-format" format content when the header contains improperly formatted data2018-06-11
OSV
CVE-2017-5444: A buffer overflow vulnerability while parsing "application/http-index-format" format content when the header contains improperly formatted data2018-06-11
OSV
thunderbird vulnerabilities2017-05-16
OSV
firefox regression2017-05-11

📋Vendor Advisories

5
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities2017-05-16
Ubuntu
Firefox regression2017-05-11
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities2017-04-21
Red Hat
Mozilla: Buffer overflow while parsing application/http-index-format content (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12)2017-04-19
Debian
CVE-2017-5444: firefox - A buffer overflow vulnerability while parsing "application/http-index-format" fo...2017

💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-5444 Mozilla: Buffer overflow while parsing application/http-index-format content (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12)2017-04-19
CVE-2017-5444 — Mozilla Firefox vulnerability | cvebase