Use After Free Affecting firefox package, versions <51.0-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.76% (81st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-FIREFOX-424072
- published 11 Jun 2018
- disclosed 11 Jun 2018
Introduced: 11 Jun 2018
CVE-2017-5396 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:unstable
firefox
to version 51.0-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream firefox
package and not the firefox
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:unstable
relevant fixed versions and status.
A use-after-free vulnerability in the Media Decoder when working with media files when some events are fired after the media elements are freed from memory. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 45.7, Firefox ESR < 45.7, and Firefox < 51.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-5396
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5396
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3771
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3832
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-13
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-22
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-01/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-02/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-03/
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1329403
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0190.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0238.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95769
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037693
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-5396