CVE-2017-5470

CRITICAL9.8EPSS 1.9%

firefox-esr - security update

Published: 6/11/2018Modified: 3/9/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2017-5470DLA-991-1

Description

Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 53 and Firefox ESR 52.1. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort that some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 54, Firefox ESR < 52.2, and Thunderbird < 52.2.

Affected packages (5)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1CRITICAL9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (1)