CVE-2017-5398

Publication date 7 March 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Memory safety bugs were reported in Thunderbird 45.7. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort that some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 52, Firefox ESR < 45.8, Thunderbird < 52, and Thunderbird < 45.8.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
firefox 17.04 zesty
Fixed 52.0.1+build2-0ubuntu1
16.10 yakkety
Fixed 52.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.10.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 52.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 52.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 52.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
thunderbird 17.04 zesty
Fixed 1:45.8.0+build1-0ubuntu1
16.10 yakkety
Fixed 1:45.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.10.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 1:45.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 1:45.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 1:45.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8 · Critical
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-3233-1
    • Thunderbird vulnerabilities
    • 24 March 2017

Other references