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MFSA2017-12 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 52.1 (CVE-2017-5449)

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MFSA2017-12 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 52.1 (CVE-2017-5449)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/19/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/20/2017
Modified
08/13/2018

Description

A possibly exploitable crash triggered during layout and manipulation of bidirectional unicode text in concert with CSS animations. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR < 52.1, and Firefox < 53.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-esr-upgrade-52_1

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