CVE-2017-5374

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2017-5374 · Published 11/06/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-5374 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting firefox (mozilla).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.8%, higher than 78.5% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 51.0 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
firefox mozilla	`< 51.0`	`51.0`

Description

Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 50.1. 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 < 51.

References

securityfocus.com/bid/95759 · Third Party Advisory
securitytracker.com/id/1037693 · Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi · Exploit
mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-01 · Vendor Advisory

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

firefox

mozilla

< 51.0

51.0

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