The plain text serializer used a fixed-size array for the number of <ol> elements it could process; however it was possible to overflow the static-sized array leading to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.3, Firefox ESR < 68.3, and Firefox < 71.
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 firefoxUpgrade firefox-esr | Aug 22, 2024 | Jan 8, 2020 |
| Amazon Linux Ami 2 | — | Upgrade thunderbirdUpgrade thunderbird-debuginfo | Apr 27, 2020 | Jan 8, 2020 |
| Arch Linux | — | Upgrade to the latest version of Arch Linux | Jul 11, 2025 | Jan 8, 2020 |
| Centos_linux | — | Upgrade firefox-debugsourceUpgrade thunderbird-debuginfoUpgrade firefox-debuginfoUpgrade thunderbird-debugsourceUpgrade firefoxUpgrade thunderbird | Dec 6, 2019 | Dec 5, 2019 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade thunderbirdUpgrade firefox-esr | Dec 12, 2019 | Dec 12, 2019 |
| Gentoo Linux | — | Upgrade mail-client/thunderbird-bin.Upgrade www-client/firefox-bin.Upgrade mail-client/thunderbird.Upgrade www-client/firefox. | Mar 13, 2020 | Jan 8, 2020 |
| Mfsa2019 36 | — | Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 71.0Upgrade to the latest version of Mozilla Firefox | Dec 4, 2019 | Dec 3, 2019 |
| Mfsa2019 37 | — | Upgrade to the latest version of Mozilla FirefoxUpgrade to Mozilla Firefox ESR version 68.3 | Dec 4, 2019 | Dec 3, 2019 |
| Mozilla Thunderbird | — | Upgrade to Mozilla Thunderbird version 68.3Upgrade to the latest version of Mozilla Thunderbird | Dec 5, 2019 | Dec 3, 2019 |
| Oracle Solaris | — | Upgrade mail/thunderbird to version 68.3.0-11.4.17.0.1.2.0 on Solaris 11.4Upgrade mail/thunderbird/plugin/thunderbird-lightning to version 68.3.0-11.4.17.0.1.2.0 on Solaris 11.4Upgrade web/browser/firefox to version 68.3.0-11.4.17.0.1.2.0 on Solaris 11.4Upgrade web/data/firefox-bookmarks to version 68.3.0-11.4.17.0.1.2.0 on Solaris 11.4 | Jan 19, 2021 | Jan 8, 2020 |
| Oracle_linux | — | Upgrade firefoxUpgrade thunderbird | Dec 12, 2019 | Dec 3, 2019 |
| Redhat_linux | — | Upgrade firefox-debugsourceUpgrade thunderbird-debuginfoNo solution existsUpgrade firefoxUpgrade firefox-debuginfoUpgrade thunderbird-debugsourceUpgrade thunderbird | Dec 6, 2019 | Dec 5, 2019 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade mozilla-nssUpgrade MozillaFirefox-translations-otherUpgrade libsoftokn3Upgrade mozilla-nss-certsUpgrade libfreebl3-32bitUpgrade MozillaThunderbird-translations-commonUpgrade mozilla-nss-certs-32bitUpgrade mozilla-nss-32bitUpgrade libfreebl3Upgrade mozillafirefox-buildsymbolsUpgrade mozilla-nss-develUpgrade mozilla-nspr-develUpgrade mozilla-nss-toolsUpgrade MozillaFirefox-translations-commonUpgrade MozillaThunderbirdUpgrade mozilla-nspr-32bitUpgrade libsoftokn3-32bitUpgrade mozilla-nsprUpgrade MozillaFirefoxUpgrade mozillafirefox-branding-upstreamUpgrade MozillaThunderbird-translations-otherUpgrade MozillaFirefox-devel | Dec 20, 2019 | Dec 9, 2019 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade firefoxUpgrade thunderbird | Dec 10, 2019 | Dec 9, 2019 |
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