Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-5448  

A security issue has been found in Firefox < 53, an out-of-bounds write in ClearKeyDecryptor while decrypting some Clearkey-encrypted media content. The ClearKeyDecryptor code runs within the Gecko Media Plugin (GMP) sandbox. If a second mechanism is found to escape the sandbox, this vulnerability allows for the writing of arbitrary data within memory, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash.

Severity High

Remote Yes

Type Arbitrary code execution

Description

A security issue has been found in Firefox < 53, an out-of-bounds write in ClearKeyDecryptor while decrypting some Clearkey-encrypted media content. The ClearKeyDecryptor code runs within the Gecko Media Plugin (GMP) sandbox. If a second mechanism is found to escape the sandbox, this vulnerability allows for the writing of arbitrary data within memory, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash.

AVG-249 firefox 52.0.2-1 53.0-1 Critical Fixed

21 Apr 2017 ASA-201704-6 AVG-249 firefox Critical multiple issues

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-10/#CVE-2017-5448
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1346648