CVE-2017-7802 — Use After Free in Mozilla Firefox
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
2.3%
top 15.26%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14
Description
A use-after-free vulnerability can occur when manipulating the DOM during the resize event of an image element. If these elements have been freed due to a lack of strong references, a potentially exploitable crash may occur when the freed elements are accessed. 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
Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0, Enterprise Linux 6.0, 7.0, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5
🔴Vulnerability Details
5GHSA▶
GHSA-q5mw-fx98-rv2q: A use-after-free vulnerability can occur when manipulating the DOM during the resize event of an image element↗2022-05-14
CVEList▶
CVE-2017-7802: A use-after-free vulnerability can occur when manipulating the DOM during the resize event of an image element↗2018-06-11
OSV▶
CVE-2017-7802: A use-after-free vulnerability can occur when manipulating the DOM during the resize event of an image element↗2018-06-11