CVE-2017-7778Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Mozilla Firefox

Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
1.1%
top 22.32%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14

Description

A number of security vulnerabilities in the Graphite 2 library including out-of-bounds reads, buffer overflow reads and writes, and the use of uninitialized memory. These issues were addressed in Graphite 2 version 1.3.10. 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 Packages7 packages

NVDsil/graphite2< 1.3.10
CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified54
NVDmozilla/firefox< 52.2.0+1
CVEListV5mozilla/firefox_esrunspecified52.2
Debiansil/graphite2< 1.3.10-1+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-w4p4-6xh7-fhf6: A number of security vulnerabilities in the Graphite 2 library including out-of-bounds reads, buffer overflow reads and writes, and the use of uniniti2022-05-14
CVEList
CVE-2017-7778: A number of security vulnerabilities in the Graphite 2 library including out-of-bounds reads, buffer overflow reads and writes, and the use of uniniti2018-06-11
OSV
CVE-2017-7778: A number of security vulnerabilities in the Graphite 2 library including out-of-bounds reads, buffer overflow reads and writes, and the use of uniniti2018-06-11

📋Vendor Advisories

5
Ubuntu
graphite2 vulnerabilities2017-08-21
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities2017-07-05
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities2017-06-15
Red Hat
Mozilla: Vulnerabilities in the Graphite 2 library (MFSA 2017-16)2017-06-14
Debian
CVE-2017-7778: firefox - A number of security vulnerabilities in the Graphite 2 library including out-of-...2017

💬Community

8
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-7772 graphite2: heap-buffer-overflow write "lz4::decompress" (CVE-2017-7772)2017-07-18
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-7775 graphite2: assertion error "size() > n"2017-07-18
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-7774 graphite2: out of bounds read "graphite2::Silf::readGraphite"2017-07-18
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-7771 graphite2: out of bounds read in "graphite2::Pass::readPass"2017-07-18
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-7777 graphite2: use of uninitialized memory "graphite2::GlyphCache::Loader::read_glyph"2017-07-18
CVE-2017-7778 — Mozilla Firefox vulnerability | cvebase