Vulnerability CVE-2019-17015
Published: 2020-01-08   Modified: 2020-01-09

Description:
During the initialization of a new content process, a pointer offset can be manipulated leading to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash in the parent process. *Note: this issue only occurs on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 68.4 and Firefox < 72.

Type:

CWE-787

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

 References:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00029.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155912/Slackware-Security-Advisory-mozilla-thunderbird-Updates.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1599005
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/18
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-01/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-02/
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