Remote Yes

Type Arbitrary code execution

Description

Several memory safety bugs have been found in firefox < 55.0 and thunderbird < 52.3. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort that some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.

AVG-385 thunderbird 52.2.1-1 52.3.0-1 Critical Fixed

AVG-375 firefox 54.0.1-1 55.0-1 Critical Fixed

10 Aug 2017 ASA-201708-3 AVG-375 firefox Critical multiple issues

23 Aug 2017 ASA-201708-18 AVG-385 thunderbird Critical multiple issues

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-18/#CVE-2017-7779
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1354443%2C1368576%2C1366903%2C1369913%2C1371424%2C1346590%2C1371890%2C1372985%2C1362924%2C1368105%2C1369994%2C1371283%2C1368362%2C1378826%2C1380426%2C1368030%2C1373220%2C1321384%2C1383002