Vulnerability CVE-2019-17024
Published: 2020-01-08   Modified: 2020-01-09

Description:
Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 71 and Firefox ESR 68.3. 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 Firefox ESR < 68.4 and Firefox < 72.

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
Redhat -> Enterprise linux desktop 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux server 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux server aus 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux server tus 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux workstation 
Mozilla -> Firefox 
Mozilla -> Firefox esr 
Debian -> Debian linux 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 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://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0085
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0086
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0111
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0120
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0123
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0127
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1507180%2C1595470%2C1598605%2C1601826
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00005.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00016.html
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/12
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/18
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/26
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4234-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4241-1/
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4600
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4603
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-01/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-02/
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