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UBUNTU-CVE-2019-17012

HIGH8.8

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

Published Dec 4, 2019

Modified 7 months ago

Fix available

Details

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.

Affected Packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTSfirefox

Affected versions:

41.0.2+build2-0ubuntu142.0+build2-0ubuntu144.0+build3-0ubuntu244.0.1+build1-0ubuntu144.0.2+build1-0ubuntu145.0+build2-0ubuntu145.0.1+build1-0ubuntu145.0.2+build1-0ubuntu146.0+build5-0ubuntu0.16.04.246.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2+65 more

Fixed in:

71.0+build5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu:18.04:LTSfirefox

Affected versions:

56.0+build6-0ubuntu157.0.1+build2-0ubuntu159.0.1+build1-0ubuntu159.0.2+build1-0ubuntu160.0+build2-0ubuntu160.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.160.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.161.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.161.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.162.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.3+27 more

Fixed in:

71.0+build5-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

Ubuntu:20.04:LTSfirefox

Affected versions:

69.0.3+build1-0ubuntu170.0+build2-0ubuntu170.0+build2-0ubuntu270.0.1+build1-0ubuntu271.0+build2-0ubuntu2

Fixed in:

71.0+build5-0ubuntu1

Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTSmozjs38

Affected versions:

38.8.0~repack1-0ubuntu138.8.0~repack1-0ubuntu338.8.0~repack1-0ubuntu4

Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTSmozjs52

Affected versions:

52.3.1-0ubuntu352.3.1-7fakesync152.8.1-0ubuntu0.18.04.152.9.1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTSmozjs52

Affected versions:

52.9.1-1build152.9.1-1ubuntu3

Ubuntu:16.04:LTSthunderbird

Affected versions:

1:38.3.0+build1-0ubuntu21:38.5.1+build2-0ubuntu11:38.6.0+build1-0ubuntu11:38.7.2+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.11:38.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.11:45.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.11:45.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.21:45.4.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.11:45.5.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.11:45.7.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1+20 more

Fixed in:

1:68.7.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

Ubuntu:18.04:LTSthunderbird

Affected versions:

1:52.4.0+build1-0ubuntu21:52.6.0+build1-0ubuntu11:52.7.0+build1-0ubuntu11:52.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.11:52.9.1+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.11:60.2.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.21:60.4.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.11:60.5.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.11:60.6.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.11:60.7.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1+6 more

Fixed in:

1:68.4.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

Ubuntu:20.04:LTSthunderbird

Affected versions:

1:68.1.2+build1-0ubuntu11:68.1.2+build1-0ubuntu21:68.2.1+build1-0ubuntu11:68.2.2+build1-0ubuntu1

Fixed in:

1:68.3.0+build2-0ubuntu1

References

REPORThttps://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-17012 REPORThttps://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4216-1 REPORThttps://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4216-2 REPORThttps://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4241-1 REPORThttps://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4335-1 REPORThttps://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-17012 REPORThttps://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-36/#CVE-2019-17012 REPORThttps://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-37/#CVE-2019-17012 REPORThttps://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-38/#CVE-2019-17012

CVSS Analysis

CVSS v3.1

8.8

Exploitability

Attack Vector

NetworkAV:N

Attack Complexity

LowAC:L

Privileges Required

NonePR:N

User Interaction

RequiredUI:R

Scope

UnchangedS:U

Impact

Confidentiality

HighC:H

Integrity

HighI:H

Availability

HighA:H

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2019-17012 USN-4216-1 USN-4216-2 USN-4241-1 USN-4335-1

Ecosystems

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS

Timeline

PublishedDec 4, 2019

ModifiedJun 3, 2025

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-17012

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