Mozilla Firefox up to 53.x memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Mozilla Firefox up to 53.x. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2017-5471. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 53.x (Web Browser). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The bug was discovered 06/13/2017. The weakness was shared 06/13/2017 with Mozilla as MFSA 2017-15 as confirmed security advisory (Website). The advisory is shared at mozilla.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2017-5471 since 01/13/2017. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 100775 (FreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (6cec1b0a-da15-467d-8691-1dea392d4c8d)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family FreeBSD Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 196814 (Ubuntu Security Notification for Firefox Vulnerabilities (USN-3315-1)).

Upgrading to version 54.0 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (100775), SecurityFocus (BID 99042†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1038689†). The entries VDB-102487, VDB-102488, VDB-102489 and VDB-102490 are related to this item. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 100775
Nessus Name: FreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (6cec1b0a-da15-467d-8691-1dea392d4c8d)
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OpenVAS ID: 802170
OpenVAS Name: Mozilla Firefox Security Updates( mfsa_2017-15_2017-16 )-Windows
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Firefox 54.0

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: MFSA 2017-15
Researcher: Mozilla
Organization: Mozilla
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2017-5471 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2017-5471
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-102509
SecurityFocus: 99042 - Mozilla Firefox CVE-2017-5471 Multiple Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities
SecurityTracker: 1038689

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Entryinfo

Created: 06/14/2017 17:35
Updated: 12/28/2020 16:11
Changes: 06/14/2017 17:35 (80), 10/17/2019 20:41 (6), 12/28/2020 16:11 (2)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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