Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-5426  

On Linux, if the secure computing mode BPF (seccomp-bpf) filter is running when the Gecko Media Plugin sandbox is started, the sandbox fails to be applied and items that would run within the sandbox are run protected only by the running filter which is typically weak compared to the sandbox.

Severity High

Remote Yes

Type Access restriction bypass

Description

On Linux, if the secure computing mode BPF (seccomp-bpf) filter is running when the Gecko Media Plugin sandbox is started, the sandbox fails to be applied and items that would run within the sandbox are run protected only by the running filter which is typically weak compared to the sandbox.

AVG-194 firefox 51.0.1-1 52.0-1 Critical Fixed

10 Mar 2017 ASA-201703-3 AVG-194 firefox Critical multiple issues

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-05/#CVE-2017-5426
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1257361