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CVE-2017-5467

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-06-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

A potential memory corruption and crash when using Skia content when drawing content outside of the bounds of a clipping region. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR < 52.1, and Firefox < 53.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: before 53.0 — fixed in 53.0
• Mozilla Firefox ESR: before 52.1 — fixed in 52.1
• Mozilla Thunderbird: before 52.1.0 — fixed in 52.1.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0, 7.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Mozilla Firefox 53.0; Mozilla Firefox ESR 52.1; Mozilla Thunderbird 52.1.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97940
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038320
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1106
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1201
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1347262
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-10/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-12/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-13/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97940
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038320
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1106
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1201

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