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MFSA2017-18 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 55 (CVE-2017-7790)

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MFSA2017-18 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 55 (CVE-2017-7790)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
08/08/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/09/2017
Modified
08/13/2018

Description

On Windows systems, if non-null-terminated strings are copied into the crash reporter for some specific registry keys, stack memory data can be copied until a null is found. This can potentially contain private data from the local system. Note: This attack only affects Windows operating systems. Other operating systems are not affected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 55.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-55_0

References

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