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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2019-9814): Firefox regression

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2019-9814): Firefox regression

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/21/2019
Created
05/24/2019
Added
05/22/2019
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 66. 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 < 67.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-firefox

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