PT-2017-4005 · Mozilla+5 · Firefox Esr+7

Nils · Published 2017-04-25 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2017-7752

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Firefox versions prior to 54 Firefox ESR versions prior to 52.2 Thunderbird versions prior to 52.2

Description The issue is related to a use-after-free vulnerability in the Input Method Editor (IME) of the affected browsers and email client, which occurs during specific user interactions due to improper event handling. This can potentially lead to a crash, but it would require specific user actions to trigger.

Recommendations For Firefox versions prior to 54, update to version 54 or later. For Firefox ESR versions prior to 52.2, update to version 52.2 or later. For Thunderbird versions prior to 52.2, update to version 52.2 or later.

Fix

Use After Free

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-416

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1770

ALT-PU-2017-1777

ALT-PU-2017-1886

ALT-PU-2018-1854

BDU:2021-00041

CESA-2017_1440

CESA-2017_1561

CVE-2017-7752

DLA-1007-1

DLA-991-1

DSA-3881-1

DSA-3918-1

MGASA-2017-0178

MGASA-2017-0180

MGASA-2018-0018

OPENSUSE-SU-2017:1579-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2017_1620-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10601-1

RHSA-2017:1440

RHSA-2017:1561

RHSA-2017_1440

RHSA-2017_1561

SUSE-SU-2017:1669-1

SUSE-SU-2017:2235-1

USN-3315-1

USN-3321-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Firefox

Firefox Esr

Red Hat

Suse

Thunderbird

Ubuntu

References · 513

• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3315-1?_ga=2.253574793.1874363206.1609607440-1543702552.1605094901 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5471 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7752 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3881-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0018.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2017:1579-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3321-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-15 · Vendor Advisory
• https://debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3881 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wiki.astralinux.ru/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1212483 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-16 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-7752 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7758 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-16 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3321-1?_ga=2.253574793.1874363206.1609607440-1543702552.1605094901 · Vendor Advisory