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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-5402: Vulnerability in Firefox, Thunderbird

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-5402: Vulnerability in Firefox, Thunderbird

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/29/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/29/2017
Modified
02/01/2022

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.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-mail-thunderbird-45-8-0-0-175-3-20-0-3-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-mail-thunderbird-plugin-thunderbird-lightning-45-8-0-0-175-3-20-0-2-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-web-browser-firefox-45-8-0-0-175-3-19-0-2-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-web-browser-firefox-plugin-firefox-java-45-8-0-0-175-3-19-0-2-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-web-data-firefox-bookmarks-45-8-0-0-175-3-19-0-2-0

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