ASA-2019-00433 – Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird: Use-after-free with HTTP/2 cached stream


Allele Security Alert

ASA-2019-00433

Identifier(s)

ASA-2019-00433, CVE-2019-11713, MFSA2019-21, MFSA2019-22, MFSA2019-23

Title

Use-after-free with HTTP/2 cached stream

Vendor(s)

Mozilla

Product(s)

Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox ESR
Mozilla Thunderbird

Affected version(s)

Mozilla Firefox versions before 68
Mozilla Firefox ESR versions before 60.8
Mozilla Thunderbird versions before 60.8

Fixed version(s)

Mozilla Firefox version 68
Mozilla Firefox ESR version 60.8
Mozilla Thunderbird version 60.8

Proof of concept

Unknown

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability can occur in HTTP/2 when a cached HTTP/2 stream is closed while still in use, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash.

Technical details

Unknown

Credits

Hanno Böck

Reference(s)

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2019-21
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-21/#CVE-2019-11713

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2019-22
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-22/#CVE-2019-11713

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2019-23
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-23/#CVE-2019-11713

Bug 1528481
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1528481

CVE-2019-11713
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-11713

CVE-2019-11713
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11713

If there is any error in this alert or you wish a comprehensive analysis, let us know.

Last modified: July 23, 2019

We are not responsible for any data loss, device corruption or any other type of issue due to the use of any information mentioned in our security alerts.