CVE-2017-7792Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Mozilla Firefox

Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
7.4%
top 8.26%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14

Description

A buffer overflow will occur when viewing a certificate in the certificate manager if the certificate has an extremely long object identifier (OID). This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.3, Firefox ESR < 52.3, and Firefox < 55.

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 Packages8 packages

CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified55
NVDmozilla/firefox< 55.0+1
CVEListV5mozilla/firefox_esrunspecified52.3
CVEListV5mozilla/thunderbirdunspecified52.3
NVDmozilla/thunderbird< 52.3.0

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0, Enterprise Linux 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

6
GHSA
GHSA-h7p7-hcm4-c5pm: A buffer overflow will occur when viewing a certificate in the certificate manager if the certificate has an extremely long object identifier (OID)2022-05-14
CVEList
CVE-2017-7792: A buffer overflow will occur when viewing a certificate in the certificate manager if the certificate has an extremely long object identifier (OID)2018-06-11
OSV
CVE-2017-7792: A buffer overflow will occur when viewing a certificate in the certificate manager if the certificate has an extremely long object identifier (OID)2018-06-11
OSV
thunderbird vulnerabilities2017-09-14
OSV
ubufox update2017-08-16

📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities2017-09-14
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities2017-08-15
Red Hat
Mozilla: Buffer overflow viewing certificates with long OID (MFSA 2017-19)2017-08-08
Debian
CVE-2017-7792: firefox - A buffer overflow will occur when viewing a certificate in the certificate manag...2017

💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-7792 Mozilla: Buffer overflow viewing certificates with long OID (MFSA 2017-19)2017-08-08
CVE-2017-7792 — Mozilla Firefox vulnerability | cvebase