CVE-2017-5398

CRITICAL

Thunderbird <45.7 - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (14)

Core 14
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0459.html
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-09/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3832
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-07/
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96651
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-05/
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037966
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-06
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0461.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3805
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-06/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0498.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-07

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0203
EPSS Percentile 84.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (19)
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
mozilla/firefox < 52.0
mozilla/thunderbird < 52.0
mozilla/thunderbird_esr < 45.8.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_desktop 5.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_desktop 6.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_desktop 7.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_server 5.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_server 6.0
... and 9 more
Published Jun 11, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026