A buffer overflow will occur when viewing a certificate in the certificate manager if the certificate has an extremely long object identifier (OID). This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.3, Firefox ESR < 52.3, and Firefox < 55.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2017-7792 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
CVSS3 Base Score | 7.5 |
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CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
Attack Vector | Network |
Attack Complexity | High |
Privileges Required | None |
User Interaction | Required |
Scope | Unchanged |
Confidentiality | High |
Integrity Impact | High |
Availability Impact | High |
Platform | Errata | Release Date |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (firefox) | RHSA-2017:2456 | 2017-08-10 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (thunderbird) | RHSA-2017:2534 | 2017-08-24 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (firefox) | RHSA-2017:2456 | 2017-08-10 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (thunderbird) | RHSA-2017:2534 | 2017-08-24 |