Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 56 and Firefox ESR 52.4. 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 < 57, Firefox ESR < 52.5, and Thunderbird < 52.5.
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 9.8
- CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Linux | — | Upgrade firefox-esr | Feb 21, 2018 | Nov 17, 2017 |
| Arch Linux | — | Upgrade to the latest version of Arch Linux | Jul 11, 2025 | Jun 11, 2018 |
| Centos_linux | — | Upgrade thunderbird-debuginfoUpgrade firefox-debuginfoUpgrade thunderbirdUpgrade firefox | Nov 21, 2017 | Nov 14, 2017 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade firefox-esrUpgrade thunderbird | Nov 16, 2017 | Nov 14, 2017 |
| Freebsd | — | Upgrade thunderbirdUpgrade seamonkeyUpgrade linux-firefoxUpgrade libxulUpgrade firefoxUpgrade linux-seamonkeyUpgrade firefox-esrUpgrade linux-thunderbird | Nov 14, 2017 | Nov 14, 2017 |
| Gentoo Linux | — | Upgrade mail-client/thunderbird-bin.Upgrade mail-client/thunderbird. | Apr 5, 2018 | Mar 28, 2018 |
| Mfsa2017 24 | — | Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 57.0 | Nov 15, 2017 | Nov 14, 2017 |
| Mfsa2017 25 | — | Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox ESR version 52.5 | Nov 15, 2017 | Nov 14, 2017 |
| Mozilla Thunderbird | — | Upgrade to Mozilla Thunderbird version 52.5 | Nov 27, 2017 | Nov 23, 2017 |
| Oracle Solaris | — | Upgrade mail/thunderbird to version 52.5.0-0.175.3.27.0.4.0 on Solaris 11.3Upgrade web/browser/firefox/plugin/firefox-java to version 52.5.0-0.175.3.27.0.3.0 on Solaris 11.3Upgrade web/browser/firefox to version 52.5.0-0.175.3.27.0.3.0 on Solaris 11.3Upgrade mail/thunderbird/plugin/thunderbird-lightning to version 52.5.0-0.175.3.27.0.4.0 on Solaris 11.3Upgrade web/data/firefox-bookmarks to version 52.5.0-0.175.3.27.0.3.0 on Solaris 11.3 | Dec 19, 2017 | Dec 19, 2017 |
| Oracle_linux | — | Upgrade firefoxUpgrade thunderbird | Nov 17, 2017 | Nov 15, 2017 |
| Redhat_linux | — | Upgrade thunderbirdUpgrade thunderbird-debuginfoUpgrade firefoxUpgrade firefox-debuginfo | Nov 17, 2017 | Nov 14, 2017 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade MozillaFirefoxUpgrade MozillaThunderbird-buildsymbolsUpgrade MozillaFirefox-translationsUpgrade MozillaFirefox-translations-commonUpgrade MozillaFirefox-develUpgrade MozillaThunderbirdUpgrade MozillaThunderbird-translations-commonUpgrade MozillaFirefox-translations-otherUpgrade MozillaThunderbird-develUpgrade MozillaThunderbird-translations-other | Nov 17, 2017 | Nov 14, 2017 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade thunderbirdUpgrade firefoxUpgrade libmozjs-52-0 | Nov 16, 2017 | Nov 14, 2017 |
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