CVE-2017-5464Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Mozilla Firefox

Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
1.4%
top 19.27%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14

Description

During DOM manipulations of the accessibility tree through script, the DOM tree can become out of sync with the accessibility tree, leading to memory corruption and 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 Packages10 packages

CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified53
NVDmozilla/firefox< 53.0+1
CVEListV5mozilla/firefox_esrunspecified45.9+1
Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 53.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2+3
CVEListV5mozilla/thunderbirdunspecified52.1

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, Enterprise Linux 6.0, 7.0, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5

🔴Vulnerability Details

6
GHSA
GHSA-cr6c-8rp4-gv28: During DOM manipulations of the accessibility tree through script, the DOM tree can become out of sync with the accessibility tree, leading to memory2022-05-14
CVEList
CVE-2017-5464: During DOM manipulations of the accessibility tree through script, the DOM tree can become out of sync with the accessibility tree, leading to memory2018-06-11
OSV
CVE-2017-5464: During DOM manipulations of the accessibility tree through script, the DOM tree can become out of sync with the accessibility tree, leading to memory2018-06-11
OSV
thunderbird vulnerabilities2017-05-16
OSV
firefox regression2017-05-11

📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities2017-05-16
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities2017-04-21
Red Hat
Mozilla: Memory corruption with accessibility and DOM manipulation (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12)2017-04-19
Debian
CVE-2017-5464: firefox - During DOM manipulations of the accessibility tree through script, the DOM tree ...2017

💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-5464 Mozilla: Memory corruption with accessibility and DOM manipulation (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12)2017-04-19
CVE-2017-5464 — Mozilla Firefox vulnerability | cvebase