Race Condition Affecting MozillaFirefox-translations-common package, versions <68.4.1-3.66.1


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.66% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-MOZILLAFIREFOXTRANSLATIONSCOMMON-2718779
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed13 Jan 2020

Introduced: 13 Jan 2020

CVE-2019-17021  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 MozillaFirefox-translations-common to version 68.4.1-3.66.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream MozillaFirefox-translations-common package and not the MozillaFirefox-translations-common package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

During the initialization of a new content process, a race condition occurs that can allow a content process to disclose heap addresses from 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 Scores

version 3.1