Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:20175456000
Revision Date:2018-06-11Version:1
Title:CVE-2017-5456 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium.
Description:A mechanism to bypass file system access protections in the sandbox using the file system request constructor through an IPC message. This allows for read and write access to the local file system. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 52.1 and Firefox < 53.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2017-5456
Platform(s):Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
  • AND Package Information
  • The 'firefox' package in xenial was vulnerable but has been fixed (note: '53.0+build6-0ubuntu0.16.04.1').
  • OR NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'thunderbird' package in xenial is not affected.
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