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Can you analyse CVE-2017-5387 for me? CVE-2017-5387 is a low severity vulnerability published on 2018-06-11T21:29:03.357. **Description:** The existence of a specifically requested local file can be found due to the double firing of the "onerror" when the "source" attribute on a "<track>" tag refers to a file that doe...
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We've got CVE-2017-5388 flagged in our vulnerability scan. How do I triage it? Here's how to triage CVE-2017-5388: **1. Understand the vulnerability:** A STUN server in conjunction with a large number of "webkitRTCPeerConnection" objects can be used to send large STUN packets in a short period of time due to a lack of...
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Can you analyse CVE-2017-5389 for me? CVE-2017-5389 is a medium severity vulnerability published on 2018-06-11T21:29:03.453. **Description:** WebExtensions could use the "mozAddonManager" API by modifying the CSP headers on sites with the appropriate permissions and then using host requests to redirect script loads to...
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Can you analyse CVE-2017-5390 for me? CVE-2017-5390 is a critical severity vulnerability published on 2018-06-11T21:29:03.497. **Description:** The JSON viewer in the Developer Tools uses insecure methods to create a communication channel for copying and viewing JSON or HTTP headers data, allowing for potential privil...
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We've got CVE-2017-5391 flagged in our vulnerability scan. How do I triage it? Here's how to triage CVE-2017-5391: **1. Understand the vulnerability:** Special "about:" pages used by web content, such as RSS feeds, can load privileged "about:" pages in an iframe. If a content-injection bug were found in one of those p...
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What's the remediation for CVE-2017-5392? **CVE-2017-5392 — Remediation Guide** **Vulnerability:** Weak proxy objects have weak references on multiple threads when they should only have them on one, resulting in incorrect memory usage and corruption, which leads to potentially exploitable crashes. Note: This issue onl...
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Can you analyse CVE-2017-5393 for me? CVE-2017-5393 is a medium severity vulnerability published on 2018-06-11T21:29:03.640. **Description:** The "mozAddonManager" allows for the installation of extensions from the CDN for addons.mozilla.org, a publicly accessible site. This could allow malicious extensions to install...
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Write a brief security report entry for CVE-2017-5394. ## Security Advisory: CVE-2017-5394 **Published:** 2018-06-11T21:29:03.687 **Severity:** High **Weakness:** CWE-352 ### Summary A location bar spoofing attack where the location bar of loaded page will be shown over the content of another tab due to a series ...
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Explain CVE-2017-5395 in plain English — what is it and should I be worried? CVE-2017-5395 (Medium severity) is a security vulnerability that was published on 2018-06-11T21:29:03.733. In plain terms: Malicious sites can display a spoofed location bar on a subsequently loaded page when the existing location bar on the ...
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Write a brief security report entry for CVE-2017-5396. ## Security Advisory: CVE-2017-5396 **Published:** 2018-06-11T21:29:03.780 **Severity:** Critical **Weakness:** CWE-416 ### Summary A use-after-free vulnerability in the Media Decoder when working with media files when some events are fired after the media el...
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Explain CVE-2017-5397 in plain English — what is it and should I be worried? CVE-2017-5397 (Critical severity) is a security vulnerability that was published on 2018-06-11T21:29:03.827. In plain terms: The cache directory on the local file system is set to be world writable. Firefox defaults to extracting libraries fr...
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What's the remediation for CVE-2017-5398? **CVE-2017-5398 — Remediation Guide** **Vulnerability:** 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 vulne...
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Explain CVE-2017-5399 in plain English — what is it and should I be worried? CVE-2017-5399 (Critical severity) is a security vulnerability that was published on 2018-06-11T21:29:03.953. In plain terms: Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 51. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presum...
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We've got CVE-2017-5400 flagged in our vulnerability scan. How do I triage it? Here's how to triage CVE-2017-5400: **1. Understand the vulnerability:** JIT-spray targeting asm.js combined with a heap spray allows for a bypass of ASLR and DEP protections leading to potential memory corruption attacks. This vulnerabilit...
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Can you analyse CVE-2017-5401 for me? CVE-2017-5401 is a critical severity vulnerability published on 2018-06-11T21:29:04.047. **Description:** A crash triggerable by web content in which an "ErrorResult" references unassigned memory due to a logic error. The resulting crash may be exploitable. This vulnerability affe...
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Explain CVE-2017-5402 in plain English — what is it and should I be worried? CVE-2017-5402 (Critical severity) is a security vulnerability that was published on 2018-06-11T21:29:04.107. In plain terms: A use-after-free can occur when events are fired for a "FontFace" object after the object has been already been destr...
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What's the remediation for CVE-2017-5403? **CVE-2017-5403 — Remediation Guide** **Vulnerability:** When adding a range to an object in the DOM, it is possible to use "addRange" to add the range to an incorrect root object. This triggers a use-after-free, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability...
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Write a brief security report entry for CVE-2017-5404. ## Security Advisory: CVE-2017-5404 **Published:** 2018-06-11T21:29:04.217 **Severity:** Critical **Weakness:** CWE-416 ### Summary A use-after-free error can occur when manipulating ranges in selections with one node inside a native anonymous tree and one no...
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Explain CVE-2017-5405 in plain English — what is it and should I be worried? CVE-2017-5405 (Medium severity) is a security vulnerability that was published on 2018-06-11T21:29:04.263. In plain terms: Certain response codes in FTP connections can result in the use of uninitialized values for ports in FTP operations. Th...
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Can you analyse CVE-2017-5406 for me? CVE-2017-5406 is a high severity vulnerability published on 2018-06-11T21:29:04.327. **Description:** A segmentation fault can occur in the Skia graphics library during some canvas operations due to issues with mask/clip intersection and empty masks. This vulnerability affects Fir...
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We've got CVE-2017-5407 flagged in our vulnerability scan. How do I triage it? Here's how to triage CVE-2017-5407: **1. Understand the vulnerability:** Using SVG filters that don't use the fixed point math implementation on a target iframe, a malicious page can extract pixel values from a targeted user. This can be us...
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Write a brief security report entry for CVE-2017-5408. ## Security Advisory: CVE-2017-5408 **Published:** 2018-06-11T21:29:04.437 **Severity:** Medium **Weakness:** CWE-200 ### Summary Video files loaded video captions cross-origin without checking for the presence of CORS headers permitting such cross-origin use...
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What's the remediation for CVE-2017-5409? **CVE-2017-5409 — Remediation Guide** **Vulnerability:** The Mozilla Windows updater can be called by a non-privileged user to delete an arbitrary local file by passing a special path to the callback parameter through the Mozilla Maintenance Service, which has privileged acces...
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Write a brief security report entry for CVE-2017-5410. ## Security Advisory: CVE-2017-5410 **Published:** 2018-06-11T21:29:04.593 **Severity:** Critical **Weakness:** CWE-119 ### Summary Memory corruption resulting in a potentially exploitable crash during garbage collection of JavaScript due errors in how increm...
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Can you analyse CVE-2017-5411 for me? CVE-2017-5411 is a high severity vulnerability published on 2018-06-11T21:29:04.640. **Description:** A use-after-free can occur during buffer storage operations within the ANGLE graphics library, used for WebGL content. The buffer storage can be freed while still in use in some c...
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Write a brief security report entry for CVE-2017-5412. ## Security Advisory: CVE-2017-5412 **Published:** 2018-06-11T21:29:04.687 **Severity:** High **Weakness:** CWE-119 ### Summary A buffer overflow read during SVG filter color value operations, resulting in data exposure. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 5...
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Write a brief security report entry for CVE-2017-5413. ## Security Advisory: CVE-2017-5413 **Published:** 2018-06-11T21:29:04.733 **Severity:** Critical **Weakness:** CWE-119 ### Summary A segmentation fault can occur during some bidirectional layout operations. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 52 and Thunder...
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Can you analyse CVE-2017-5414 for me? CVE-2017-5414 is a medium severity vulnerability published on 2018-06-11T21:29:04.797. **Description:** The file picker dialog can choose and display the wrong local default directory when instantiated. On some operating systems, this can lead to information disclosure, such as th...
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Explain CVE-2017-5415 in plain English — what is it and should I be worried? CVE-2017-5415 (Medium severity) is a security vulnerability that was published on 2018-06-11T21:29:04.890. In plain terms: An attack can use a blob URL and script to spoof an arbitrary addressbar URL prefaced by "blob:" as the protocol, leadi...
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Explain CVE-2017-5416 in plain English — what is it and should I be worried? CVE-2017-5416 (High severity) is a security vulnerability that was published on 2018-06-11T21:29:04.953. In plain terms: In certain circumstances a networking event listener can be prematurely released. This appears to result in a null derefe...
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What's the remediation for CVE-2017-5417? **CVE-2017-5417 — Remediation Guide** **Vulnerability:** When dragging content from the primary browser pane to the addressbar on a malicious site, it is possible to change the addressbar so that the displayed location following navigation does not match the URL of the newly l...
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Write a brief security report entry for CVE-2017-5418. ## Security Advisory: CVE-2017-5418 **Published:** 2018-06-11T21:29:05.047 **Severity:** Medium **Weakness:** CWE-125 ### Summary An out of bounds read error occurs when parsing some HTTP digest authorization responses, resulting in information leakage throug...
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What's the remediation for CVE-2017-5419? **CVE-2017-5419 — Remediation Guide** **Vulnerability:** If a malicious site repeatedly triggers a modal authentication prompt, eventually the browser UI will become non-responsive, requiring shutdown through the operating system. This is a denial of service (DOS) attack. This...
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Can you analyse CVE-2017-5420 for me? CVE-2017-5420 is a medium severity vulnerability published on 2018-06-11T21:29:05.140. **Description:** A "javascript:" url loaded by a malicious page can obfuscate its location by blanking the URL displayed in the addressbar, allowing for an attacker to spoof an existing page wit...
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Write a brief security report entry for CVE-2017-5421. ## Security Advisory: CVE-2017-5421 **Published:** 2018-06-11T21:29:05.203 **Severity:** High **Weakness:** CWE-20 ### Summary A malicious site could spoof the contents of the print preview window if popup windows are enabled, resulting in user confusion of w...
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What's the remediation for CVE-2017-5422? **CVE-2017-5422 — Remediation Guide** **Vulnerability:** If a malicious site uses the "view-source:" protocol in a series within a single hyperlink, it can trigger a non-exploitable browser crash when the hyperlink is selected. This was fixed by no longer making "view-source:"...
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We've got CVE-2017-5425 flagged in our vulnerability scan. How do I triage it? Here's how to triage CVE-2017-5425: **1. Understand the vulnerability:** The Gecko Media Plugin sandbox allows access to local files that match specific regular expressions. On OS OX, this matching allows access to some data in subdirectori...
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Explain CVE-2017-5426 in plain English — what is it and should I be worried? CVE-2017-5426 (Medium severity) is a security vulnerability that was published on 2018-06-11T21:29:05.343. In plain terms: On Linux, if the secure computing mode BPF (seccomp-bpf) filter is running when the Gecko Media Plugin sandbox is start...
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Write a brief security report entry for CVE-2017-5427. ## Security Advisory: CVE-2017-5427 **Published:** 2018-06-11T21:29:05.407 **Severity:** Medium **Weakness:** CWE-362 ### Summary A non-existent chrome.manifest file will attempt to be loaded during startup from the primary installation directory. If a malici...
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Explain CVE-2017-5428 in plain English — what is it and should I be worried? CVE-2017-5428 (Critical severity) is a security vulnerability that was published on 2018-06-11T21:29:05.453. In plain terms: An integer overflow in "createImageBitmap()" was reported through the Pwn2Own contest. The fix for this vulnerability...
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Can you analyse CVE-2017-5429 for me? CVE-2017-5429 is a critical severity vulnerability published on 2018-06-11T21:29:05.483. **Description:** 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 th...
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Can you analyse CVE-2017-5430 for me? CVE-2017-5430 is a critical severity vulnerability published on 2018-06-11T21:29:05.547. **Description:** Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 52, Firefox ESR 52, and Thunderbird 52. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough eff...
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We've got CVE-2017-5432 flagged in our vulnerability scan. How do I triage it? Here's how to triage CVE-2017-5432: **1. Understand the vulnerability:** A use-after-free vulnerability occurs during certain text input selection resulting in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.1, ...
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What's the remediation for CVE-2017-5433? **CVE-2017-5433 — Remediation Guide** **Vulnerability:** A use-after-free vulnerability in SMIL animation functions occurs when pointers to animation elements in an array are dropped from the animation controller while still in use. This results in a potentially exploitable cr...
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Write a brief security report entry for CVE-2017-5434. ## Security Advisory: CVE-2017-5434 **Published:** 2018-06-11T21:29:05.703 **Severity:** Critical **Weakness:** CWE-416 ### Summary A use-after-free vulnerability occurs when redirecting focus handling which results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vu...
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Explain CVE-2017-5435 in plain English — what is it and should I be worried? CVE-2017-5435 (Critical severity) is a security vulnerability that was published on 2018-06-11T21:29:05.750. In plain terms: A use-after-free vulnerability occurs during transaction processing in the editor during design mode interactions. Th...
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We've got CVE-2017-5436 flagged in our vulnerability scan. How do I triage it? Here's how to triage CVE-2017-5436: **1. Understand the vulnerability:** An out-of-bounds write in the Graphite 2 library triggered with a maliciously crafted Graphite font. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This issue was fi...
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What's the remediation for CVE-2017-5438? **CVE-2017-5438 — Remediation Guide** **Vulnerability:** A use-after-free vulnerability during XSLT processing due to the result handler being held by a freed handler during handling. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52....
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Can you analyse CVE-2017-5439 for me? CVE-2017-5439 is a critical severity vulnerability published on 2018-06-11T21:29:05.937. **Description:** A use-after-free vulnerability during XSLT processing due to poor handling of template parameters. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects ...
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Explain CVE-2017-5440 in plain English — what is it and should I be worried? CVE-2017-5440 (Critical severity) is a security vulnerability that was published on 2018-06-11T21:29:05.983. In plain terms: A use-after-free vulnerability during XSLT processing due to a failure to propagate error conditions during matching ...
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Write a brief security report entry for CVE-2017-5441. ## Security Advisory: CVE-2017-5441 **Published:** 2018-06-11T21:29:06.030 **Severity:** Critical **Weakness:** CWE-416 ### Summary A use-after-free vulnerability when holding a selection during scroll events. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. ...
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Write a brief security report entry for CVE-2017-5442. ## Security Advisory: CVE-2017-5442 **Published:** 2018-06-11T21:29:06.107 **Severity:** Critical **Weakness:** CWE-416 ### Summary A use-after-free vulnerability during changes in style when manipulating DOM elements. This results in a potentially exploitabl...
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What's the remediation for CVE-2017-5443? **CVE-2017-5443 — Remediation Guide** **Vulnerability:** An out-of-bounds write vulnerability while decoding improperly formed BinHex format archives. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR < 45.9, Firefox ESR < 52.1, and Firefox < 53. **Severity:** Critic...
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What's the remediation for CVE-2017-5444? **CVE-2017-5444 — Remediation Guide** **Vulnerability:** A buffer overflow vulnerability while parsing "application/http-index-format" format content when the header contains improperly formatted data. This allows for an out-of-bounds read of data from memory. This vulnerabili...
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Write a brief security report entry for CVE-2017-5445. ## Security Advisory: CVE-2017-5445 **Published:** 2018-06-11T21:29:06.280 **Severity:** High **Weakness:** CWE-129 ### Summary A vulnerability while parsing "application/http-index-format" format content where uninitialized values are used to create an array...
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Can you analyse CVE-2017-5446 for me? CVE-2017-5446 is a critical severity vulnerability published on 2018-06-11T21:29:06.343. **Description:** An out-of-bounds read when an HTTP/2 connection to a servers sends "DATA" frames with incorrect data content. This leads to a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability...
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We've got CVE-2017-5447 flagged in our vulnerability scan. How do I triage it? Here's how to triage CVE-2017-5447: **1. Understand the vulnerability:** An out-of-bounds read during the processing of glyph widths during text layout. This results in a potentially exploitable crash and could allow an attacker to read oth...
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Write a brief security report entry for CVE-2017-5448. ## Security Advisory: CVE-2017-5448 **Published:** 2018-06-11T21:29:06.453 **Severity:** High **Weakness:** CWE-787 ### Summary An out-of-bounds write in "ClearKeyDecryptor" while decrypting some Clearkey-encrypted media content. The "ClearKeyDecryptor" code ...
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Write a brief security report entry for CVE-2017-5449. ## Security Advisory: CVE-2017-5449 **Published:** 2018-06-11T21:29:06.500 **Severity:** High **Weakness:** CWE-20 ### Summary A possibly exploitable crash triggered during layout and manipulation of bidirectional unicode text in concert with CSS animations. ...
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We've got CVE-2017-5450 flagged in our vulnerability scan. How do I triage it? Here's how to triage CVE-2017-5450: **1. Understand the vulnerability:** A mechanism to spoof the Firefox for Android addressbar using a "javascript:" URI. On Firefox for Android, the base domain is parsed incorrectly, making the resulting ...
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Write a brief security report entry for CVE-2017-5451. ## Security Advisory: CVE-2017-5451 **Published:** 2018-06-11T21:29:06.607 **Severity:** Medium **Weakness:** CWE-20 ### Summary A mechanism to spoof the addressbar through the user interaction on the addressbar and the "onblur" event. The event could be used...
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Can you analyse CVE-2017-5452 for me? CVE-2017-5452 is a medium severity vulnerability published on 2018-06-11T21:29:06.657. **Description:** Malicious sites can display a spoofed addressbar on a page when the existing location bar on the new page is scrolled out of view if an HTML editable page element is user select...
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What's the remediation for CVE-2017-5453? **CVE-2017-5453 — Remediation Guide** **Vulnerability:** A mechanism to inject static HTML into the RSS reader preview page due to a failure to escape characters sent as URL parameters for a feed's "TITLE" element. This vulnerability allows for spoofing but no scripted content...
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We've got CVE-2017-5454 flagged in our vulnerability scan. How do I triage it? Here's how to triage CVE-2017-5454: **1. Understand the vulnerability:** A mechanism to bypass file system access protections in the sandbox to use the file picker to access different files than those selected in the file picker through the...
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Write a brief security report entry for CVE-2017-5455. ## Security Advisory: CVE-2017-5455 **Published:** 2018-06-11T21:29:06.810 **Severity:** High **Weakness:** NVD-CWE-noinfo ### Summary The internal feed reader APIs that crossed the sandbox barrier allowed for a sandbox escape and escalation of privilege if c...
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What's the remediation for CVE-2017-5456? **CVE-2017-5456 — Remediation Guide** **Vulnerability:** A mechanism to bypass file system access protections in the sandbox using the file system request constructor through an IPC message. This allows for read and write access to the local file system. This vulnerability aff...
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What's the remediation for CVE-2017-5458? **CVE-2017-5458 — Remediation Guide** **Vulnerability:** When a "javascript:" URL is drag and dropped by a user into the addressbar, the URL will be processed and executed. This allows for users to be socially engineered to execute an XSS attack on themselves. This vulnerabili...
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What's the remediation for CVE-2017-5459? **CVE-2017-5459 — Remediation Guide** **Vulnerability:** A buffer overflow in WebGL triggerable by web content, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR < 45.9, Firefox ESR < 52.1, and Firefox < 53. **Severity:**...
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Can you analyse CVE-2017-5460 for me? CVE-2017-5460 is a critical severity vulnerability published on 2018-06-11T21:29:07.030. **Description:** A use-after-free vulnerability in frame selection triggered by a combination of malicious script content and key presses by a user. This results in a potentially exploitable c...
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Write a brief security report entry for CVE-2017-5462. ## Security Advisory: CVE-2017-5462 **Published:** 2018-06-11T21:29:07.093 **Severity:** Medium **Weakness:** CWE-682 ### Summary A flaw in DRBG number generation within the Network Security Services (NSS) library where the internal state V does not correctly...
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Explain CVE-2017-5463 in plain English — what is it and should I be worried? CVE-2017-5463 (Medium severity) is a security vulnerability that was published on 2018-06-11T21:29:07.140. In plain terms: Android intents can be used to launch Firefox for Android in reader mode with a user specified URL. This allows an atta...
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Can you analyse CVE-2017-5464 for me? CVE-2017-5464 is a critical severity vulnerability published on 2018-06-11T21:29:07.187. **Description:** During DOM manipulations of the accessibility tree through script, the DOM tree can become out of sync with the accessibility tree, leading to memory corruption and a potentia...
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Explain CVE-2017-5465 in plain English — what is it and should I be worried? CVE-2017-5465 (Critical severity) is a security vulnerability that was published on 2018-06-11T21:29:07.250. In plain terms: An out-of-bounds read while processing SVG content in "ConvolvePixel". This results in a crash and also allows for ot...
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What's the remediation for CVE-2017-5466? **CVE-2017-5466 — Remediation Guide** **Vulnerability:** If a page is loaded from an original site through a hyperlink and contains a redirect to a "data:text/html" URL, triggering a reload will run the reloaded "data:text/html" page with its origin set incorrectly. This allow...
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Explain CVE-2017-5467 in plain English — what is it and should I be worried? CVE-2017-5467 (High severity) is a security vulnerability that was published on 2018-06-11T21:29:07.357. In plain terms: A potential memory corruption and crash when using Skia content when drawing content outside of the bounds of a clipping ...
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Can you analyse CVE-2017-5468 for me? CVE-2017-5468 is a critical severity vulnerability published on 2018-06-11T21:29:07.407. **Description:** An issue with incorrect ownership model of "privateBrowsing" information exposed through developer tools. This can result in a non-exploitable crash when manually triggered du...
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Write a brief security report entry for CVE-2017-5469. ## Security Advisory: CVE-2017-5469 **Published:** 2018-06-11T21:29:07.453 **Severity:** Critical **Weakness:** CWE-119 ### Summary Fixed potential buffer overflows in generated Firefox code due to CVE-2016-6354 issue in Flex. This vulnerability affects Thund...
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What's the remediation for CVE-2017-5470? **CVE-2017-5470 — Remediation Guide** **Vulnerability:** Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 53 and Firefox ESR 52.1. 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 c...
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Can you analyse CVE-2017-5471 for me? CVE-2017-5471 is a critical severity vulnerability published on 2018-06-11T21:29:07.577. **Description:** Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 53. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort that some of these could be expl...
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Explain CVE-2017-5472 in plain English — what is it and should I be worried? CVE-2017-5472 (Critical severity) is a security vulnerability that was published on 2018-06-11T21:29:07.607. In plain terms: A use-after-free vulnerability with the frameloader during tree reconstruction while regenerating CSS layout when att...
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Can you analyse CVE-2017-7749 for me? CVE-2017-7749 is a critical severity vulnerability published on 2018-06-11T21:29:07.657. **Description:** A use-after-free vulnerability when using an incorrect URL during the reloading of a docshell. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Fire...
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Write a brief security report entry for CVE-2017-7750. ## Security Advisory: CVE-2017-7750 **Published:** 2018-06-11T21:29:07.717 **Severity:** Critical **Weakness:** CWE-416 ### Summary A use-after-free vulnerability during video control operations when a "<track>" element holds a reference to an older window if...
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Can you analyse CVE-2017-7751 for me? CVE-2017-7751 is a critical severity vulnerability published on 2018-06-11T21:29:07.763. **Description:** A use-after-free vulnerability with content viewer listeners that results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 54, Firefox ESR < 52.2, and ...
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We've got CVE-2017-7752 flagged in our vulnerability scan. How do I triage it? Here's how to triage CVE-2017-7752: **1. Understand the vulnerability:** A use-after-free vulnerability during specific user interactions with the input method editor (IME) in some languages due to how events are handled. This results in a ...
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Write a brief security report entry for CVE-2017-7753. ## Security Advisory: CVE-2017-7753 **Published:** 2018-06-11T21:29:07.873 **Severity:** Critical **Weakness:** CWE-125 ### Summary An out-of-bounds read occurs when applying style rules to pseudo-elements, such as ::first-line, using cached style data. This ...
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Write a brief security report entry for CVE-2017-7754. ## Security Advisory: CVE-2017-7754 **Published:** 2018-06-11T21:29:07.920 **Severity:** High **Weakness:** CWE-125 ### Summary An out-of-bounds read in WebGL with a maliciously crafted "ImageInfo" object during WebGL operations. This vulnerability affects Fi...
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Write a brief security report entry for CVE-2017-7755. ## Security Advisory: CVE-2017-7755 **Published:** 2018-06-11T21:29:07.967 **Severity:** High **Weakness:** CWE-426 ### Summary The Firefox installer on Windows can be made to load malicious DLL files stored in the same directory as the installer when it is r...
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We've got CVE-2017-7756 flagged in our vulnerability scan. How do I triage it? Here's how to triage CVE-2017-7756: **1. Understand the vulnerability:** A use-after-free and use-after-scope vulnerability when logging errors from headers for XML HTTP Requests (XHR). This could result in a potentially exploitable crash. ...
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Can you analyse CVE-2017-7757 for me? CVE-2017-7757 is a critical severity vulnerability published on 2018-06-11T21:29:08.093. **Description:** A use-after-free vulnerability in IndexedDB when one of its objects is destroyed in memory while a method on it is still being executed. This results in a potentially exploita...
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We've got CVE-2017-7758 flagged in our vulnerability scan. How do I triage it? Here's how to triage CVE-2017-7758: **1. Understand the vulnerability:** An out-of-bounds read vulnerability with the Opus encoder when the number of channels in an audio stream changes while the encoder is in use. This vulnerability affect...
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Write a brief security report entry for CVE-2017-7759. ## Security Advisory: CVE-2017-7759 **Published:** 2018-06-11T21:29:08.187 **Severity:** High **Weakness:** CWE-200 ### Summary Android intent URLs given to Firefox for Android can be used to navigate from HTTP or HTTPS URLs to local "file:" URLs, allowing fo...
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Explain CVE-2017-7760 in plain English — what is it and should I be worried? CVE-2017-7760 (High severity) is a security vulnerability that was published on 2018-06-11T21:29:08.250. In plain terms: The Mozilla Windows updater modifies some files to be updated by reading the original file and applying changes to it. Th...
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Can you analyse CVE-2017-7761 for me? CVE-2017-7761 is a medium severity vulnerability published on 2018-06-11T21:29:08.297. **Description:** The Mozilla Maintenance Service "helper.exe" application creates a temporary directory writable by non-privileged users. When this is combined with creation of a junction (a for...
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Write a brief security report entry for CVE-2017-7762. ## Security Advisory: CVE-2017-7762 **Published:** 2018-06-11T21:29:08.343 **Severity:** High **Weakness:** CWE-20 ### Summary When entered directly, Reader Mode did not strip the username and password section of URLs displayed in the addressbar. This can be ...
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We've got CVE-2017-7763 flagged in our vulnerability scan. How do I triage it? Here's how to triage CVE-2017-7763: **1. Understand the vulnerability:** Default fonts on OS X display some Tibetan characters as whitespace. When used in the addressbar as part of an IDN this can be used for domain name spoofing attacks. N...
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Write a brief security report entry for CVE-2017-7764. ## Security Advisory: CVE-2017-7764 **Published:** 2018-06-11T21:29:08.437 **Severity:** Medium **Weakness:** CWE-20 ### Summary Characters from the "Canadian Syllabics" unicode block can be mixed with characters from other unicode blocks in the addressbar in...
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Write a brief security report entry for CVE-2017-7765. ## Security Advisory: CVE-2017-7765 **Published:** 2018-06-11T21:29:08.483 **Severity:** High **Weakness:** CWE-20 ### Summary The "Mark of the Web" was not correctly saved on Windows when files with very long names were downloaded from the Internet. Without ...
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What's the remediation for CVE-2017-7766? **CVE-2017-7766 — Remediation Guide** **Vulnerability:** An attack using manipulation of "updater.ini" contents, used by the Mozilla Windows Updater, and privilege escalation through the Mozilla Maintenance Service to allow for arbitrary file execution and deletion by the Main...
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We've got CVE-2017-7767 flagged in our vulnerability scan. How do I triage it? Here's how to triage CVE-2017-7767: **1. Understand the vulnerability:** The Mozilla Maintenance Service can be invoked by an unprivileged user to overwrite arbitrary files with junk data using the Mozilla Windows Updater, which runs with t...
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Write a brief security report entry for CVE-2017-7768. ## Security Advisory: CVE-2017-7768 **Published:** 2018-06-11T21:29:08.640 **Severity:** Medium **Weakness:** CWE-200 ### Summary The Mozilla Maintenance Service can be invoked by an unprivileged user to read 32 bytes of any arbitrary file on the local system...
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