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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-5433: Vulnerability in Firefox, Thunderbird

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-5433: 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
02/17/2022

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability in SMIL animation functions occurs when pointers to animation elements in an array are dropped from the animation controller while still in use. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR < 45.9, Firefox ESR < 52.1, and Firefox < 53.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-web-browser-firefox-45-9-0-0-175-3-20-0-3-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-web-browser-firefox-plugin-firefox-java-45-9-0-0-175-3-20-0-3-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-web-data-firefox-bookmarks-45-9-0-0-175-3-20-0-3-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-entire-11-4-11-4-0-0-1-15-0

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