Firefox ESR: Failure to correctly handle null bytes when processing HTML entities resulted in Firefox incorrectly…
CVE-2019-11763 is fixed in 10 products on 2 platforms, first by thunderbird 1:68.2.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, released October 22, 2019. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Urgent.
Failure to correctly handle null bytes when processing HTML entities resulted in Firefox incorrectly parsing these entities. This could have led to HTML comment text being treated as HTML which could have led to XSS in a web application under certain conditions. It could have also led to HTML entities being masked from filters - enabling the use of entities to mask the actual characters of interest from filters. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 70, Thunderbird < 68.2, and Firefox ESR < 68.2.
Where it's fixed
| Product | Fixed in | Fix | Released |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windows apps | |||
| Mozilla Firefox ESR (en-US) | 78.0esr | Mozilla Firefox ESR (en-US) 78.0esr | Jun 25, 2020 |
| Linux | |||
| firefox · RHEL 8 | 0:68.2.0-2.el8_0 | RHSA-2019:3196 | Oct 24, 2019 |
| firefox · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 70.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 | firefox 70.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 | Jul 9, 2020 |
| firefox · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) | 70.0+build2-0ubuntu1 | firefox 70.0+build2-0ubuntu1 | Jul 9, 2020 |
| firefox · ol 8 | 0:68.2.0-2.0.1.el8_0 | ELSA-2019-3196 | Oct 24, 2019 |
| firefox-geckodriver · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 70.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 | firefox-geckodriver 70.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 | Jul 9, 2020 |
| firefox-geckodriver · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) | 70.0+build2-0ubuntu1 | firefox-geckodriver 70.0+build2-0ubuntu1 | Jul 9, 2020 |
| firefox-mozsymbols · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 70.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 | firefox-mozsymbols 70.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 | Jul 9, 2020 |
| firefox-mozsymbols · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) | 70.0+build2-0ubuntu1 | firefox-mozsymbols 70.0+build2-0ubuntu1 | Jul 9, 2020 |
| thunderbird · RHEL 8 | 0:68.2.0-1.el8_0 | RHSA-2019:3237 | Oct 29, 2019 |
| thunderbird · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 1:68.2.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 | thunderbird 1:68.2.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 | Oct 22, 2019 |
| thunderbird · ol 8 | 0:68.2.0-1.0.1.el8_0 | ELSA-2019-3237 | Oct 30, 2019 |
| thunderbird-gnome-support · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 1:68.2.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 | thunderbird-gnome-support 1:68.2.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 | Oct 22, 2019 |
| thunderbird-mozsymbols · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 1:68.2.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 | thunderbird-mozsymbols 1:68.2.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 | Oct 22, 2019 |
| xul-ext-calendar-timezones · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 1:68.2.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 | xul-ext-calendar-timezones 1:68.2.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 | Oct 22, 2019 |
| xul-ext-gdata-provider · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 1:68.2.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 | xul-ext-gdata-provider 1:68.2.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 | Oct 22, 2019 |
| xul-ext-lightning · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 1:68.2.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 | xul-ext-lightning 1:68.2.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 | Oct 22, 2019 |
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