CVE-2019-17005
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-01-08 21:14
Modified
2024-08-05 01:24
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
security@mozilla.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00000.htmlIssue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00001.htmlIssue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0292Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0295Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1584170Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-02Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-10Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4241-1/Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4335-1/Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-36/Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-37/Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-38/Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
MozillaThunderbird
MozillaFirefox ESR
MozillaFirefox
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