Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 68 and Firefox ESR 68. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort that some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 69 and Firefox ESR < 68.1.
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 8.8
- CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Linux | — | Upgrade firefox-esr | Nov 8, 2019 | Sep 27, 2019 |
| Arch Linux | — | Upgrade to the latest version of Arch Linux | Jul 11, 2025 | Sep 27, 2019 |
| Centos_linux | — | Upgrade firefoxUpgrade firefox-debuginfoUpgrade firefox-debugsource | Sep 5, 2019 | Sep 4, 2019 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade firefox-esr | Jul 30, 2024 | Sep 27, 2019 |
| Freebsd | — | Upgrade waterfoxUpgrade seamonkeyUpgrade linux-firefoxUpgrade firefox-esrUpgrade linux-seamonkeyUpgrade firefoxUpgrade libxulUpgrade thunderbirdUpgrade linux-thunderbird | Sep 4, 2019 | Sep 3, 2019 |
| Mfsa2019 25 | — | Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 69.0 | Sep 4, 2019 | Sep 3, 2019 |
| Mfsa2019 26 | — | Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox ESR version 68.1 | Sep 4, 2019 | Sep 3, 2019 |
| Oracle Solaris | — | Upgrade web/browser/firefox to version 78.3.0-11.4.27.0.1.82.0 on Solaris 11.4Upgrade web/data/firefox-bookmarks to version 78.3.0-11.4.27.0.1.82.0 on Solaris 11.4Upgrade mail/thunderbird to version 78.3.0-11.4.27.0.1.82.0 on Solaris 11.4Upgrade mail/thunderbird/plugin/thunderbird-lightning to version 68.12.0-11.4.27.0.1.82.0 on Solaris 11.4 | Jan 19, 2021 | Sep 27, 2019 |
| Oracle_linux | — | Upgrade firefox | Jul 21, 2020 | Sep 3, 2019 |
| Redhat_linux | — | Upgrade firefox-debugsourceNo solution existsUpgrade firefox-debuginfoUpgrade firefox | Sep 5, 2019 | Sep 4, 2019 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade libfirefox-gobject-2_0-0Upgrade firefox-gtk3-immodule-vietnameseUpgrade firefox-libffi7Upgrade firefox-libffi4Upgrade firefox-libcairo2Upgrade firefox-libcairo-gobject2Upgrade firefox-gtk3-immodule-amharicUpgrade firefox-libatk-1_0-0Upgrade firefox-gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailerUpgrade firefox-gdk-pixbuf-query-loadersUpgrade firefox-gtk3-langUpgrade mozillafirefox-branding-upstreamUpgrade libfirefox-gthread-2_0-0Upgrade libsoftokn3-32bitUpgrade libfirefox-gmodule-2_0-0Upgrade firefox-gdk-pixbuf-langUpgrade firefox-atk-langUpgrade firefox-gtk3-dataUpgrade firefox-gtk3-immodule-ximUpgrade mozillafirefox-buildsymbolsUpgrade mozilla-nssUpgrade firefox-libgtk-3-0Upgrade firefox-gtk3-immodules-tigrignaUpgrade libfirefox-glib-2_0-0Upgrade mozilla-nspr-develUpgrade mozillafirefox-branding-sledUpgrade mozillafirefox-branding-sleUpgrade firefox-gio-branding-upstreamUpgrade firefox-glib2-langUpgrade firefox-gtk3-branding-upstreamUpgrade mozilla-nss-32bitUpgrade firefox-glib2-toolsUpgrade mozillafirefox-develUpgrade mozillafirefox-translations-otherUpgrade mozillafirefoxUpgrade libfreebl3-32bitUpgrade mozilla-nsprUpgrade firefox-gtk3-immodule-multipressUpgrade firefox-libpango-1_0-0Upgrade firefox-libgdk_pixbuf-2_0-0Upgrade libfirefox-gio-2_0-0Upgrade mozilla-nss-toolsUpgrade libsoftokn3Upgrade mozilla-nspr-32bitUpgrade mozilla-nss-develUpgrade firefox-gtk3-immodule-inuktitutUpgrade mozillafirefox-translations-commonUpgrade firefox-gtk3-immodule-thaiUpgrade firefox-libharfbuzz0Upgrade firefox-gtk3-toolsUpgrade mozilla-nss-certsUpgrade libfreebl3Upgrade mozilla-nss-certs-32bit | Oct 8, 2019 | Sep 3, 2019 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade firefox | Sep 5, 2019 | Sep 3, 2019 |
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