CVE-2017-7752

critical
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v4 NEW
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.5

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability during specific user interactions with the input method editor (IME) in some languages due to how events are handled. This results in a potentially exploitable crash but would require specific user interaction to trigger. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 54, Firefox ESR < 52.2, and Thunderbird < 52.2.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
Affected
arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
Fixed 52.2.0-1
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 52.2.0esr-1
sid Fixed 54.0-1
forky Fixed 52.2.0esr-1
bullseye Fixed 52.2.0esr-1
bookworm Fixed 52.2.0esr-1

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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