CVE-2017-7790Mozilla Firefox vulnerability

4 documents4 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 48.95%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 13

Description

On Windows systems, if non-null-terminated strings are copied into the crash reporter for some specific registry keys, stack memory data can be copied until a null is found. This can potentially contain private data from the local system. Note: This attack only affects Windows operating systems. Other operating systems are not affected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 55.

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 Packages3 packages

CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified55
NVDmozilla/firefox< 55.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
GHSA
GHSA-rh2c-qhcf-wg9r: On Windows systems, if non-null-terminated strings are copied into the crash reporter for some specific registry keys, stack memory data can be copied2022-05-13

📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2017-7790: firefox - On Windows systems, if non-null-terminated strings are copied into the crash rep...2017

📄Research Papers

1
arXiv
On the Effectiveness of Type-based Control Flow Integrity2020-02-14