Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:201778360000000
Revision Date:2018-06-11Version:1
Title:CVE-2017-7836 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium.
Description: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.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2017-7836
Platform(s):Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
  • AND Package Information
  • NOT firefox package in xenial, while related to the CVE in some way, is not affected.
  • OR NOT firefox-globalmenu package in xenial, while related to the CVE in some way, is not affected.
  • OR NOT firefox-mozsymbols package in xenial, while related to the CVE in some way, is not affected.
  • OR NOT firefox-testsuite package in xenial, while related to the CVE in some way, is not affected.
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