PT-2017-16499 · Mozilla+3 · Firefox+4

Radek Czyz + 1 · Published 2017-03-07 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2017-5416

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Firefox versions prior to 52 Thunderbird versions prior to 52

Description The issue is related to a networking event listener that can be prematurely released, leading to a null dereference.

Recommendations For Firefox versions prior to 52, update to version 52 or later. For Thunderbird versions prior to 52, update to version 52 or later.

Exploit

Fix

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1322

ALT-PU-2017-1447

ALT-PU-2017-1578

CVE-2017-5416

MGASA-2018-0018

OPENSUSE-SU-2017:1268-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2017_0690-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10600-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10601-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

USN-3216-1

USN-3216-2

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Firefox

Suse

Thunderbird

Ubuntu

References · 2006

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1328121 · Exploit
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5400 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0018.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-05 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3216-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3216-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5399 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5422 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5426 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5416 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5405 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-19 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-05/#CVE-2017-5416 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5416 · Security Note