CVE-2017-5471 — 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 Buffer6 documents5 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
0.6%
top 31.58%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Mozilla FirefoxDebian Firefox
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14

Description

Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 53. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort that some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 54.

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 Packages4 packages

▶debiandebian/firefox< firefox 54.0-1 (sid)
▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 54
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 54.0
▶Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 54.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+1

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-jgj7-qr7v-4334: Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 53↗2022-05-14
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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2017-06-15
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OSV
CVE-2017-5471: Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 53↗2017-06-14
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2017-06-15
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Debian
CVE-2017-5471: firefox - Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 53. Some of these bugs showed eviden...↗2017
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