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MFSA2017-01 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 51 (CVE-2017-5387)

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MFSA2017-01 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 51 (CVE-2017-5387)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
06/11/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/12/2018
Modified
08/09/2018

Description

The existence of a specifically requested local file can be found due to the double firing of the "onerror" when the "source" attribute on a "<track>" tag refers to a file that does not exist if the source page is loaded locally. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 51.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-51_0

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