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CVE-2017-7836
Published: Jun 11, 2018
Modified: Aug 5, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
The "pingsender" executable used by the Firefox Health Report dynamically loads a system copy of libcurl, which an attacker could replace. This allows for privilege escalation as the replaced libcurl code will run with Firefox's privileges. Note: This attack requires an attacker have local system access and only affects OS X and Linux. Windows systems are not affected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 57.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Mozilla | Firefox | affected unspecified - < 57 |
References
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-24/
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101832
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1039803
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1401339
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