CVE-2017-5472 — Use After Free in Mozilla Firefox
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
1.9%
top 16.85%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14
Description
A use-after-free vulnerability with the frameloader during tree reconstruction while regenerating CSS layout when attempting to use a node in the tree that no longer exists. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 54, Firefox ESR < 52.2, and Thunderbird < 52.2.
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
Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0, Enterprise Linux 6.0, 7.0, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
5GHSA▶
GHSA-vpv3-r9v6-rh28: A use-after-free vulnerability with the frameloader during tree reconstruction while regenerating CSS layout when attempting to use a node in the tree↗2022-05-14
CVEList▶
CVE-2017-5472: A use-after-free vulnerability with the frameloader during tree reconstruction while regenerating CSS layout when attempting to use a node in the tree↗2018-06-11
OSV▶
CVE-2017-5472: A use-after-free vulnerability with the frameloader during tree reconstruction while regenerating CSS layout when attempting to use a node in the tree↗2018-06-11
📋Vendor Advisories
4Red Hat
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Debian▶
CVE-2017-5472: firefox - A use-after-free vulnerability with the frameloader during tree reconstruction w...↗2017
💬Community
1Bugzilla▶
CVE-2017-5472 Mozilla: Use-after-free using destroyed node when regenerating trees (MFSA 2017-16)↗2017-06-14