CVE-2019-17024Out-of-bounds Write in Mozilla Firefox

Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
3.3%
top 12.81%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedJan 8
Latest updateMay 24

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.

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 Packages10 packages

NVDmozilla/firefox< 72.0
CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxbefore 72
CVEListV5mozilla/firefox_esrbefore 68.4
Debianmozilla/thunderbird< 1:68.4.1-1+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0, 8.0, 9.0, Ubuntu Linux 16.04, 18.04, 19.04, 19.10, Enterprise Linux 8.0, 7.7, 8.1, 8.2, 8.4

🔴Vulnerability Details

5
GHSA
GHSA-r596-hj6g-g56c: Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 71 and Firefox ESR 682022-05-24
OSV
thunderbird vulnerabilities2020-04-21
OSV
thunderbird vulnerabilities2020-01-16
OSV
CVE-2019-17024: Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 71 and Firefox ESR 682020-01-08
CVEList
CVE-2019-17024: Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 71 and Firefox ESR 682020-01-08

📋Vendor Advisories

8
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities2020-04-21
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities2020-01-16
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities2020-01-09
Red Hat
Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 72 and Firefox ESR 68.42020-01-07
Debian
CVE-2019-17024: firefox - Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 71 and Firefox...2019

💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-17024 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 72 and Firefox ESR 68.42020-01-07
CVE-2019-17024 — Out-of-bounds Write in Mozilla Firefox | cvebase