PT-2017-3977 · Mozilla+5 · Firefox Esr+7

Chamal De Silva · Published 2017-02-25 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2017-5443

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

10

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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

Description The issue is related to an out-of-bounds write vulnerability that occurs while decoding improperly formed BinHex format archives. This can lead to a denial of service. The vulnerability is also associated with the use of memory after it has been freed, specifically in the ProcessNextState method, when decoding malformed BinHex archives.

Recommendations For Thunderbird versions prior to 52.1, update to version 52.1 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.

Exploit

Fix

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1505

ALT-PU-2017-1506

ALT-PU-2017-1553

ALT-PU-2017-1577

ALT-PU-2018-1854

BDU:2020-05833

CESA-2017_1104

CESA-2017_1106

CESA-2017_1201

CVE-2017-5443

DLA-906-1

DSA-3831-1

MGASA-2017-0118

MGASA-2017-0139

MGASA-2018-0018

OPENSUSE-SU-2017:1268-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2017_1099-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10600-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10601-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

RHSA-2017:1104

RHSA-2017:1106

RHSA-2017:1201

RHSA-2017_1104

RHSA-2017_1106

RHSA-2017_1201

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

USN-3278-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Firefox

Firefox Esr

Red Hat

Suse

Thunderbird

Ubuntu

References · 2087

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1342661 · Exploit
• 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://mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-13 · 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/notices/USN-3278-1?_ga=2.91217818.1630830267.1608209597-1543702552.1605094901 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5435 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5443 · Security Note
• 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