CVE-2017-5373

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-5373  

Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 50.1 and Firefox ESR 45.6. 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. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 45.7, Firefox ESR < 45.7, and Firefox < 51.

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 50.1 and Firefox ESR 45.6. 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. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 45.7, Firefox ESR < 45.7, and Firefox < 51.

Find out more about CVE-2017-5373 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6.8
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

CVSS v3 metrics

CVSS3 Base Score 7.3
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Impact Low
Availability Impact Low

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (thunderbird) RHSA-2017:0238 2017-02-02
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (firefox) RHSA-2017:0190 2017-01-25
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (firefox) RHSA-2017:0190 2017-01-25
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) (thunderbird) RHSA-2017:0238 2017-02-02
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (thunderbird) RHSA-2017:0238 2017-02-02
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (thunderbird) RHSA-2017:0238 2017-02-02
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (firefox) RHSA-2017:0190 2017-01-25

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Christian Holler, Gary Kwong, André Bargull, Jan de Mooij, Tom Schuster, and Oriol as the original reporters.

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