CVE-2019-17025 (NVD)

2020-01-08

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.

Products Ubuntu_linux, Firefox
Type Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer (CWE-119)
First patch - None (likely due to unavailable code)
Links https://usn.ubuntu.com/4234-1/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-01/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1328295%2C1328300%2C1590447%2C1590965%2C1595692%2C1597321%2C1597481