CVE-2017-7806 — Use After Free in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-416 — Use After Free12 documents7 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
OSV9.1
EPSS
1.7%
top 17.57%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Mozilla FirefoxDebian Firefox
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability can occur when the layer manager is freed too early when rendering specific SVG content, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 55.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

▶debiandebian/firefox< firefox 55.0-1 (sid)
▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 55
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 55.0
▶Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 55.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.2+3

Patches

Patch: bugzilla.mozilla.org ↗Patch: bugzilla.mozilla.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

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GHSA
GHSA-v73x-jj5r-xff3: A use-after-free vulnerability can occur when the layer manager is freed too early when rendering specific SVG content, resulting in a potentially exp↗2022-05-14
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OSV
firefox regression↗2017-08-17
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OSV
ubufox update↗2017-08-16
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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2017-08-15
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OSV
CVE-2017-7806: A use-after-free vulnerability can occur when the layer manager is freed too early when rendering specific SVG content, resulting in a potentially exp↗2017-08-10
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Ubuntu
Firefox regression↗2017-08-17
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Ubuntu
Ubufox update↗2017-08-16
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2017-08-15
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Red Hat
Mozilla: Use-after-free in layer manager with SVG (MFSA 2017-18)↗2017-08-08
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Debian
CVE-2017-7806: firefox - A use-after-free vulnerability can occur when the layer manager is freed too ear...↗2017
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-7806 Mozilla: Use-after-free in layer manager with SVG (MFSA 2017-18)↗2017-08-08
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