critical
CVE-2017-5464
Mozilla: Memory corruption with accessibility and DOM manipulation (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12)
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.
Severity by source
NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (high), Oracle (high), Ubuntu (medium).
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 potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR < 45.9, Firefox ESR < 52.1, and Firefox < 53.
Affected packages and fixed versions
| Source | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| debian 11 | firefox-esr | 45.9.0esr-1 |
| debian 12 | firefox-esr | 45.9.0esr-1 |
| debian 13 | firefox-esr | 45.9.0esr-1 |
| debian 14 | firefox-esr | 45.9.0esr-1 |
| debian 7 | firefox-esr | 45.9.0esr-1~deb7u1 |
| debian 8 | firefox-esr | 45.9.0esr-1~deb8u1 |
| echo | firefox-esr | 45.9.0esr-1 |
| Oracle Linux 6 | firefox, thunderbird | 52.1.0-2.0.1.el6_9 and 1 more |
| Oracle Linux 7 | firefox, thunderbird | 52.1.0-2.0.1.el7_3 and 1 more |
| ubuntu 14.04 | firefox, thunderbird | 53.0+build6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 and 1 more |
| ubuntu 16.04 | firefox, thunderbird | 53.0+build6-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 and 1 more |
| ubuntu 16.10 | firefox, thunderbird | 53.0+build6-0ubuntu0.16.10.1 and 1 more |
Show all 19 entries from 13 sources
| Source | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| debian 11 | firefox-esr | 45.9.0esr-1 |
| debian 12 | firefox-esr | 45.9.0esr-1 |
| debian 13 | firefox-esr | 45.9.0esr-1 |
| debian 14 | firefox-esr | 45.9.0esr-1 |
| debian 7 | firefox-esr | 45.9.0esr-1~deb7u1 |
| debian 8 | firefox-esr | 45.9.0esr-1~deb8u1 |
| echo | firefox-esr | 45.9.0esr-1 |
| Oracle Linux 6 | firefox | 52.1.0-2.0.1.el6_9 |
| Oracle Linux 6 | thunderbird | 52.1.0-1.0.1.el6_9 |
| Oracle Linux 7 | firefox | 52.1.0-2.0.1.el7_3 |
| Oracle Linux 7 | thunderbird | 52.1.0-1.0.1.el7_3 |
| ubuntu 14.04 | firefox | 53.0+build6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 |
| ubuntu 14.04 | thunderbird | 1:52.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 |
| ubuntu 16.04 | firefox | 53.0+build6-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 |
| ubuntu 16.04 | thunderbird | 1:52.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 |
| ubuntu 16.10 | firefox | 53.0+build6-0ubuntu0.16.10.1 |
| ubuntu 16.10 | thunderbird | 1:52.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.10.1 |
| ubuntu 17.04 | firefox | 53.0+build6-0ubuntu0.17.04.1 |
| ubuntu 17.04 | thunderbird | 1:52.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.17.04.1 |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97940
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038320
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1104
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1106
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1201
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5464
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1347075
- https://linux.oracle.com/cve/CVE-2017-5464.html
All 20 references
- https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2017-1201.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5464
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3260-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3278-1
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5464
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3831
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-10/#CVE-2017-5464
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-11/#CVE-2017-5464
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-10/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-11/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-12/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-13/