A STUN server in conjunction with a large number of "webkitRTCPeerConnection" objects can be used to send large STUN packets in a short period of time due to a lack of rate limiting being applied on e10s systems, allowing for a denial of service attack. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 51.
References
Link Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95763 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037693 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1281482 Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-01/ Vendor Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2018-06-11T21:00:00

Updated: 2018-06-12T09:57:01

Reserved: 2017-01-13T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2017-5388

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-06-11T21:29:03.407

Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223


Link: CVE-2017-5388

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