Allele Security Alert
ASA-2019-00450
Identifier(s)
ASA-2019-00450, CVE-2019-11709, MFSA2019-21
Title
Memory safety bugs
Vendor(s)
Mozilla Foundation
Product(s)
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox ESR
Affected version(s)
Mozilla Firefox version before 68
Mozilla Firefox ESR version before 60.8
Fixed version(s)
Mozilla Firefox version 68
Mozilla Firefox ESR version 68
Proof of concept
Unknown
Description
Mozilla developers and community members Andreea Pavel, Christian Holler, Honza Bambas, Jason Kratzer, and Jeff Gilbert reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 67 and Firefox ESR 60.7. 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.
Technical details
Unknown
Credits
Andreea Pavel, Christian Holler, Honza Bambas, Jason Kratzer, and Jeff Gilbert
Reference(s)
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2019-21
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-21/#CVE-2019-11709
CVE-2019-11709
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-11709
CVE-2019-11709
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11709
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Last modified: July 18, 2019