Bug 1479196 (CVE-2017-7780)

Summary: CVE-2017-7780 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 55 (MFSA 2017-18)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Doran Moppert <dmoppert>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Doran Moppert 2017-08-08 06:37:03 UTC 
Mozilla developers and community members Gary Kwong, Christian Holler, André Bargull, Bob Clary, Carsten Book, Emilio Cobos Álvarez, Masayuki Nakano, Sebastian Hengst, Franziskus Kiefer, Tyson Smith, and Ronald Crane reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 54. 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.


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https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-18/#CVE-2017-7780


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Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Mozilla developers and community