CVE Published: 11/06/2018 |
CVE Updated: 05/08/2024 |
CVE Year: 2017 Source: mozilla |
Vendor: Mozilla |
Product: Firefox Status : PUBLISHED
CVE-2017-7805 Description
During TLS 1.2 exchanges, handshake hashes are generated which point to a message buffer. This saved data is used for later messages but in some cases, the handshake transcript can exceed the space available in the current buffer, causing the allocation of a new buffer. This leaves a pointer pointing to the old, freed buffer, resulting in a use-after-free when handshake hashes are then calculated afterwards. This can result in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 56, Firefox ESR < 52.4, and Thunderbird < 52.4.