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MFSA2017-24 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 57 (CVE-2017-7827)

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MFSA2017-24 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 57 (CVE-2017-7827)

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
11/14/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/15/2017
Modified
11/27/2024

Description

Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 56. 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 < 57.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-57_0

References

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