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CVE-2017-5471

Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 53.

Published Modified CWE 119
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

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Ubuntu (medium).

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 exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 54.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
ubuntu 14.04firefox54.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
ubuntu 16.04firefox54.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
ubuntu 16.10firefox54.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.10.1
ubuntu 17.04firefox54.0+build3-0ubuntu0.17.04.1
ubuntu 17.10firefox54.0+build3-0ubuntu1
ubuntu 18.04firefox54.0+build3-0ubuntu1
ubuntu 18.10firefox54.0+build3-0ubuntu1
ubuntu 19.04firefox54.0+build3-0ubuntu1
ubuntu 19.10firefox54.0+build3-0ubuntu1
ubuntu 20.04firefox54.0+build3-0ubuntu1
ubuntu 20.10firefox54.0+build3-0ubuntu1
ubuntu 21.04firefox54.0+build3-0ubuntu1
Show all 18 entries from 18 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
ubuntu 14.04firefox54.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
ubuntu 16.04firefox54.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
ubuntu 16.10firefox54.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.10.1
ubuntu 17.04firefox54.0+build3-0ubuntu0.17.04.1
ubuntu 17.10firefox54.0+build3-0ubuntu1
ubuntu 18.04firefox54.0+build3-0ubuntu1
ubuntu 18.10firefox54.0+build3-0ubuntu1
ubuntu 19.04firefox54.0+build3-0ubuntu1
ubuntu 19.10firefox54.0+build3-0ubuntu1
ubuntu 20.04firefox54.0+build3-0ubuntu1
ubuntu 20.10firefox54.0+build3-0ubuntu1
ubuntu 21.04firefox54.0+build3-0ubuntu1
ubuntu 21.10firefox54.0+build3-0ubuntu1
ubuntu 22.04firefox54.0+build3-0ubuntu1
ubuntu 22.10firefox54.0+build3-0ubuntu1
ubuntu 23.04firefox54.0+build3-0ubuntu1
ubuntu 23.10firefox54.0+build3-0ubuntu1
ubuntu 24.04firefox54.0+build3-0ubuntu1

References

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