CVE-2017-7836
11.06.2018, 21:29
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.Enginsight
Vendor | Product | Version |
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mozilla | firefox | 𝑥 ≤ 56.0.2 |
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= Vulnerable software versions

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