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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-7824: Vulnerability in Firefox, Thunderbird

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-7824: Vulnerability in Firefox, Thunderbird

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/30/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/30/2017
Modified
02/01/2022

Description

A buffer overflow occurs when drawing and validating elements with the ANGLE graphics library, used for WebGL content. This is due to an incorrect value being passed within the library during checks and results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 56, Firefox ESR < 52.4, and Thunderbird < 52.4.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-mail-thunderbird-52-4-0-0-175-3-26-0-4-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-mail-thunderbird-plugin-thunderbird-lightning-52-4-0-0-175-3-26-0-4-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-web-browser-firefox-52-4-0-0-175-3-25-0-3-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-web-browser-firefox-plugin-firefox-java-52-4-0-0-175-3-25-0-3-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-web-data-firefox-bookmarks-52-4-0-0-175-3-25-0-3-0

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