CVE-2019-17015 — Out-of-bounds Write in Mozilla Firefox
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.9%
top 23.83%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJan 8
Latest updateMay 24
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages4 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
3GHSA▶
GHSA-6jgc-63f5-7hch: During the initialization of a new content process, a pointer offset can be manipulated leading to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable cra↗2022-05-24
OSV▶
CVE-2019-17015: During the initialization of a new content process, a pointer offset can be manipulated leading to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable cra↗2020-01-08
CVEList▶
CVE-2019-17015: During the initialization of a new content process, a pointer offset can be manipulated leading to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable cra↗2020-01-08
📋Vendor Advisories
5💬Community
1Bugzilla▶
CVE-2019-17015 Mozilla: Memory corruption in parent process during new content process initialization on Windows↗2020-01-07