CVE-2017-5429

Publication date 20 April 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 52, Firefox ESR 45.8, Firefox ESR 52, and Thunderbird 52. 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 Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR < 45.9, Firefox ESR < 52.1, and Firefox < 53.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
firefox 17.04 zesty
Fixed 53.0+build6-0ubuntu0.17.04.1
16.10 yakkety
Fixed 53.0+build6-0ubuntu0.16.10.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 53.0+build6-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 53.0+build6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
12.04 LTS precise Ignored
thunderbird 17.04 zesty
Fixed 1:52.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.17.04.1
16.10 yakkety
Fixed 1:52.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.10.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 1:52.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 1:52.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
12.04 LTS precise Ignored end of life

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-3278-1
    • Thunderbird vulnerabilities
    • 16 May 2017
    • USN-3260-1
    • Firefox vulnerabilities
    • 21 April 2017

Other references