CVE-2017-5418

Published: 07 March 2017

An out of bounds read error occurs when parsing some HTTP digest authorization responses, resulting in information leakage through the reading of random memory containing matches to specifically set patterns. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 52 and Thunderbird < 52.

Priority

CVSS 3 base score: 5.3

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-2017-5418
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-05/#CVE-2017-5418
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3216-1
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Launchpad
Debian

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