vulnerability

Arch Linux: Arbitrary code execution (CVE-2017-7792)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 11, 2018
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A buffer overflow has been found in firefox < 55.0 and thunderbird < 52.3, when viewing a certificate in the certificate manager if the certificate has an extremely long object identifier (OID). This results in a potentially exploitable crash.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

References

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