CVE-2017-5412

HIGH 7.5CVE-2017-5412 · Published 11/06/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-5412 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting firefox (mozilla), thunderbird (mozilla).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 4.4%, higher than 91.4% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 52.0 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
firefox mozilla	`< 52.0`	`52.0`
thunderbird mozilla	`< 52.0`	`52.0`

Description

A buffer overflow read during SVG filter color value operations, resulting in data exposure. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 52 and Thunderbird < 52.

References

securityfocus.com/bid/96692 · Third Party Advisory
securitytracker.com/id/1037966 · Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi · Issue Tracking
mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-05 · Vendor Advisory
mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-09 · Vendor Advisory

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

firefox

mozilla

< 52.0

52.0

thunderbird

mozilla

< 52.0

52.0

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