CVE-2019-17012
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CVE-2019-17012 is a high-severity vulnerability rated 8.8/10 on the CVSS scale. Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 70 and Firefox ESR 68.2. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. EPSS estimates a 1.98% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Description
Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 70 and Firefox ESR 68.2. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.3, Firefox ESR < 68.3, and Firefox < 71.
Metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness Enumeration
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Mozilla | Firefox | < 71.0 |
| Mozilla | Firefox Esr | < 68.3 |
| Mozilla | Thunderbird | < 68.3 |
| Opensuse | Leap | 15.1 |
| Canonical | Ubuntu Linux | 16.04 |
| Canonical | Ubuntu Linux | 18.04 |
| Canonical | Ubuntu Linux | 19.10 |
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00000.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00001.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0292Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0295Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1449736%2C1533957%2C1560667%2C1567209%2C1580288%2C1585760%2C1592502Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-02Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-10Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4241-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4335-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-36/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-37/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-38/Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00000.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00001.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0292Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0295Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1449736%2C1533957%2C1560667%2C1567209%2C1580288%2C1585760%2C1592502Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-02Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-10Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4241-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4335-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-36/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-37/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-38/Vendor Advisory
Timeline
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- Status
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