Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-5378  

An information disclosure vulnerability has been found in Firefox < 51 and Thunderbird < 45.7, where hashed codes of JavaScript objects are shared between pages. This allows for pointer leaks because an object’s address can be discovered through hash codes, and also allows for data leakage of an object’s content using these hash codes.

Severity High

Remote Yes

Type Information disclosure

Description

An information disclosure vulnerability has been found in Firefox < 51 and Thunderbird < 45.7, where hashed codes of JavaScript objects are shared between pages. This allows for pointer leaks because an object’s address can be discovered through hash codes, and also allows for data leakage of an object’s content using these hash codes.

AVG-158 thunderbird 45.6.0-1 45.7.0-1 Critical Fixed

AVG-157 firefox 50.1.0-1 51.0.1-1 Critical Fixed

29 Jan 2017 ASA-201701-40 AVG-158 thunderbird Critical multiple issues

29 Jan 2017 ASA-201701-39 AVG-157 firefox Critical multiple issues

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-01/#CVE-2017-5378
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1312001
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1330769