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SUSE: CVE-2017-7836: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2017-7836: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/14/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/19/2018
Modified
11/12/2019

Description

The "pingsender" executable used by the Firefox Health Report dynamically loads a system copy of libcurl, which an attacker could replace. This allows for privilege escalation as the replaced libcurl code will run with Firefox's privileges. Note: This attack requires an attacker have local system access and only affects OS X and Linux. Windows systems are not affected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 57.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-mozillafirefox
  • suse-upgrade-mozillafirefox-translations-common
  • suse-upgrade-mozillafirefox-translations-other

References

  • CVE-2017-7836

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