Mozilla Firefox up to 50 memory corruption

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A vulnerability has been found in Mozilla Firefox up to 50 (Web Browser) and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The bug was discovered 01/24/2017. The weakness was disclosed 01/24/2017 by Christian Holler as MFSA 2017-01 as confirmed security advisory (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at mozilla.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2017-5373 since 01/13/2017. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 11/04/2022).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 96804 (Slackware 14.1 / 14.2 / current : mozilla-thunderbird (SSA:2017-026-01)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Slackware Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 196674 (Ubuntu Security Notification for Thunderbird Vulnerabilities (USN-3165-1)).

Upgrading to version 51 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (96804). The entries 96001, 96002, 96003 and 96004 are pretty similar.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.0
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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 96804
Nessus Name: Slackware 14.1 / 14.2 / current : mozilla-thunderbird (SSA:2017-026-01)
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OpenVAS ID: 881932
OpenVAS Name: CentOS Update for thunderbird CESA-2017:0238 centos7
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Firefox 51

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: MFSA 2017-01
Researcher: Christian Holler
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2017-5373 (🔍)
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SecurityTracker: 1037693
SecurityFocus: 95762 - Mozilla Firefox CVE-2017-5373 Multiple Unspecified Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities
OSVDB: - CVE-2017-5373 - Mozilla - Multiple Products - Memory Corruption Issue

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Entryinfo

Created: 01/26/2017 15:17
Updated: 11/04/2022 08:57
Changes: 01/26/2017 15:17 (80), 08/02/2020 14:38 (7), 11/04/2022 08:57 (3)
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