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Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting firefox package, versions <51.0-1

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.5% (77th percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-FIREFOX-424935
  • published 11 Jun 2018
  • disclosed 11 Jun 2018
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Introduced: 11 Jun 2018

CVE-2017-5388 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-770 Open this link in a new tab

How 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 STUN server in conjunction with a large number of "webkitRTCPeerConnection" objects can be used to send large STUN packets in a short period of time due to a lack of rate limiting being applied on e10s systems, allowing for a denial of service attack. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 51.