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MFSA2020-02 Firefox: Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 68.4 (CVE-2019-17015)

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MFSA2020-02 Firefox: Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 68.4 (CVE-2019-17015)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/07/2020
Created
01/09/2020
Added
01/08/2020
Modified
01/16/2020

Description

During 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.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-esr-upgrade-68_4

References

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