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CVE-2019-17012 — Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 70 and Firefox

Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 70 and Firefox ESR 68.2. 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 Thun

CVSS
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EPSS
2.15% (top 15.90%)
CWE
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Published
2020-01-08T21:24:43.000Z
Last modified
2024-08-05T01:24:48.674Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 70 and Firefox ESR 68.2. 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 Thunderbird < 68.3, Firefox ESR < 68.3, and Firefox < 71.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
MozillaThunderbirdbefore 68.3
MozillaFirefox ESRbefore 68.3
MozillaFirefoxbefore 71

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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