CVE-2017-5471

critical

Description

Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 53. 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 Firefox < 54.

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-15/

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1349604%2C1318645%2C1361098%2C1361100%2C1341026%2C1349421%2C1360852%2C1299147%2C1352073%2C1354853%2C1366446%2C1342181%2C1343069

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038689

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99042

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-06-11

Updated: 2018-08-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical