PT-2017-16510 · Mozilla+5 · Firefox+5

Ivan Fratric · Published 2017-04-19 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2017-5448

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.6

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Firefox ESR versions prior to 45.9 Firefox ESR versions prior to 52.1 Firefox versions prior to 53

Description The issue is related to an out-of-bounds write in the ClearKeyDecryptor while decrypting certain Clearkey-encrypted media content. This code runs within the Gecko Media Plugin (GMP) sandbox. If another mechanism to escape the sandbox is found, this could allow for writing arbitrary data within memory, potentially resulting in a crash that could be exploited.

Recommendations For Firefox ESR versions prior to 45.9, update to version 45.9 or later. For Firefox ESR versions prior to 52.1, update to version 52.1 or later. For Firefox versions prior to 53, update to version 53 or later.

Fix

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1505

ALT-PU-2017-1506

ALT-PU-2017-1577

ALT-PU-2018-1854

CESA-2017_1104

CESA-2017_1106

CVE-2017-5448

DLA-906-1

DSA-3831-1

MGASA-2017-0118

MGASA-2018-0018

OPENSUSE-SU-2017_1099-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10600-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

RHSA-2017:1104

RHSA-2017:1106

RHSA-2017_1104

RHSA-2017_1106

SUSE-SU-2017:1175-1

SUSE-SU-2017:1248-1

SUSE-SU-2017:1669-1

SUSE-SU-2017:2235-1

USN-3260-1

USN-3260-2

ZDI-17-320

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Firefox

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 1990

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3260-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0018.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3260-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-5448 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2017-0118 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5435 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5430 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3260-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5468 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5456 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3831-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5441 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-19 · Vendor Advisory