CVE-2017-5399

Published: 07 March 2017

Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 51. 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 < 52 and Thunderbird < 52.

Priority

CVSS 3 base score: 9.8

Status

Package	Release	Status
firefox Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (52.0)





	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus)	Released (52.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1)
	Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr)	Does not exist (trusty was released [52.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1])

References

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5399
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-05/#CVE-2017-5399
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3216-1
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

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CVE-2017-5399

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