CVE-2019-17015

Summary

CVECVE-2019-17015
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-01-08 22:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-01-13 20:15:00 UTC
DescriptionDuring the initialization of a new content process, a pointer offset can be manipulated leading to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash in 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Microsoft Windows - All All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows - All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox All All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox All All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox Esr All All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox Esr All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:0094-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:0060-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
1599005 - (CVE-2019-17015) Race condition in firefox!sandbox::SharedMemIPCServer::Init leading to relative out-of-bounds read/write in the broker process (Sandbox escape / LPE) MISC bugzilla.mozilla.org Permissions Required
Slackware Security Advisory - mozilla-thunderbird Updates ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 68.4 — Mozilla CONFIRM www.mozilla.org Vendor Advisory
Bugtraq: [slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird (SSA:2020-010-01) BUGTRAQ seclists.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 72 — Mozilla CONFIRM www.mozilla.org Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 296077 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 18.4.0 Missing (CPUJAN2020)
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