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Red Hat: CVE-2019-11691: CVE-2019-11691 Mozilla: Use-after-free in XMLHttpRequest (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2019-11691: CVE-2019-11691 Mozilla: Use-after-free in XMLHttpRequest (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/23/2019
Created
05/25/2019
Added
05/24/2019
Modified
12/15/2023

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability can occur when working with XMLHttpRequest (XHR) in an event loop, causing the XHR main thread to be called after it has been freed. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 60.7, Firefox < 67, and Firefox ESR < 60.7.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-firefox
  • redhat-upgrade-firefox-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-firefox-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-thunderbird
  • redhat-upgrade-thunderbird-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-thunderbird-debugsource

References

  • CVE-2019-11691
  • RHSA-2019:1265
  • RHSA-2019:1269
  • RHSA-2019:1308
  • RHSA-2019:1309

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