vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-5402: firefox-esr, icedove -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 7, 2017
Added
Mar 11, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

A use-after-free can occur when events are fired for a "FontFace" object after the object has been already been destroyed while working with fonts. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 52, Firefox ESR < 45.8, Thunderbird < 52, and Thunderbird < 45.8.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-firefox-esrdebian-upgrade-icedove
Title
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