Vulnerability CVE-2019-17012
Published: 2020-01-08   Modified: 2020-01-09

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.

Type:

CWE-120

 (Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Opensuse -> LEAP 
Mozilla -> Firefox 
Mozilla -> Firefox esr 
Mozilla -> Thunderbird 

 References:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00001.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1449736%2C1533957%2C1560667%2C1567209%2C1580288%2C1585760%2C1592502
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4241-1/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-36/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-37/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-38/
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