Out-of-bounds Write Affecting firefox package, versions <72.0-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.63% (79th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-FIREFOX-540857
- published 7 Jan 2020
- disclosed 8 Jan 2020
Introduced: 7 Jan 2020
CVE-2019-17025 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:unstable
firefox
to version 72.0-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream firefox
package and not the firefox
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:unstable
relevant fixed versions and status.
Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 71. 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 < 72.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-17025
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1328295%2C1328300%2C1590447%2C1590965%2C1595692%2C1597321%2C1597481
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-01/
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2019-17025
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4234-1/