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2020-01-08
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.
| Products | Firefox, Firefox_esr, Leap |
| Type | Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition') (CWE-362) |
| First patch | - None (likely due to unavailable code) |
| Links |
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1599008
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-01/ • http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00043.html • https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-02/ • http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155912/Slackware-Security-Advisory-mozilla-thunderbird-Updates.html |