Mozilla Firefox up to 50 Skia memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 50 and classified as critical. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Skia. Such manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2017-5377. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 50 (Web Browser). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component Skia. 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. CVE summarizes:

A memory corruption vulnerability in Skia that can occur when using transforms to make gradients, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 51.

The bug was discovered 01/24/2017. The weakness was disclosed 01/24/2017 by Atte Kettunen as MFSA 2017-01 as confirmed security advisory (Website). The advisory is available at mozilla.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2017-5377 since 01/13/2017. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 97047 (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 16.10 : firefox regression (USN-3175-2)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Ubuntu Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 196675 (Ubuntu Security Notification for Firefox Vulnerabilities (USN-3175-1)).

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 databases at Tenable (97047), SecurityFocus (BID 95761†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1037693†). The entries VDB-96001, VDB-96003, VDB-96004 and VDB-96005 are pretty similar. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.0
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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 97047
Nessus Name: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 16.10 : firefox regression (USN-3175-2)
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OpenVAS ID: 802170
OpenVAS Name: Mozilla Firefox Security Updates(mfsa_2017-01_2017-02)-Windows
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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: Atte Kettunen
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2017-5377 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2017-5377
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-96002

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SecurityFocus: 95761 - Mozilla Firefox CVE-2017-5377 Memory Corruption Vulnerability
OSVDB: - CVE-2017-5377 - Mozilla - Firefox - Memory Corruption Issue
SecurityTracker: 1037693

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Entryinfo

Created: 01/26/2017 15:17
Updated: 08/02/2020 10:47
Changes: 01/26/2017 15:17 (82), 08/02/2020 10:47 (7)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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