CVE-2017-5464: Debian Linux

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

During DOM manipulations of the accessibility tree through script, the DOM tree can become out of sync with the accessibility tree, leading to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR < 45.9, Firefox ESR < 52.1, and Firefox < 53.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Mozilla Firefox: before 53.0 (fixed in 53.0); version 52.0 only
• Mozilla Thunderbird: before 52.1.0 (fixed in 52.1.0)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: version 7.3 only; version 7.4 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: version 7.3 only; version 7.4 only; version 7.5 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only

Published 2018-06-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.