Memory corruption resulting in a potentially exploitable crash during garbage collection of JavaScript due errors in how incremental…

Description

Memory corruption resulting in a potentially exploitable crash during garbage collection of JavaScript due errors in how incremental sweeping is managed for memory cleanup. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 52, Firefox ESR < 45.8, Thunderbird < 52, and Thunderbird < 45.8.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

3.4% · top 11% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.

Weakness

• Memory corruption during JavaScript garbage collection incremental sweeping
• CWE-119 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-119 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Mozilla · Firefox

  • affected unspecified – < 52

• Mozilla · Firefox ESR

  • affected unspecified – < 45.8

• Mozilla · Thunderbird

  • affected unspecified – < 52
  • affected unspecified – < 45.8

References (14)

• 96693 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• RHSA-2017:0459 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-09/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• DSA-3832 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-07/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1330687 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-05/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 1037966 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• GLSA-201705-06 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• RHSA-2017:0461 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• DSA-3805 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-06/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• RHSA-2017:0498 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• GLSA-201705-07 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 14:55 UTC.