CVE-2019-17024

Firefox ESR: Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 71 and Firefox ESR 68.3.

CVE-2019-17024 is fixed in 10 products on 2 platforms, first by firefox 72.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, released January 8, 2020. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Urgent.

UrgentFixed on 2 platforms
CVSS
8.8
Critical
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0246
84th percentile

Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 71 and Firefox ESR 68.3. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 68.4 and Firefox < 72.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Windows apps
Mozilla Firefox ESR (en-US) 78.0esr Mozilla Firefox ESR (en-US) 78.0esr Jun 25, 2020
Linux
firefox · RHEL 8 0:68.4.1-1.el8_1 RHSA-2020:0111 Jan 14, 2020
firefox · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 72.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 firefox 72.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Jan 8, 2020
firefox · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 72.0.1+build1-0ubuntu1 firefox 72.0.1+build1-0ubuntu1 Jan 8, 2020
firefox · ol 8 0:68.4.1-1.0.1.el8_1 ELSA-2020-0111 Jan 15, 2020
firefox-geckodriver · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 72.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 firefox-geckodriver 72.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Jan 8, 2020
firefox-geckodriver · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 72.0.1+build1-0ubuntu1 firefox-geckodriver 72.0.1+build1-0ubuntu1 Jan 8, 2020
firefox-mozsymbols · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 72.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 firefox-mozsymbols 72.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Jan 8, 2020
firefox-mozsymbols · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 72.0.1+build1-0ubuntu1 firefox-mozsymbols 72.0.1+build1-0ubuntu1 Jan 8, 2020
thunderbird · RHEL 8 0:68.4.1-2.el8_1 RHSA-2020:0127 Jan 16, 2020
thunderbird · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:68.4.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 thunderbird 1:68.4.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Jan 8, 2020
thunderbird · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1:68.4.1+build1-0ubuntu1 thunderbird 1:68.4.1+build1-0ubuntu1 Jan 8, 2020
thunderbird · ol 8 0:68.4.1-2.0.1.el8_1 ELSA-2020-0127 Jan 18, 2020
thunderbird-gnome-support · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:68.4.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 thunderbird-gnome-support 1:68.4.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Jan 8, 2020
thunderbird-gnome-support · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1:68.4.1+build1-0ubuntu1 thunderbird-gnome-support 1:68.4.1+build1-0ubuntu1 Jan 8, 2020
thunderbird-mozsymbols · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:68.4.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 thunderbird-mozsymbols 1:68.4.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Jan 8, 2020
thunderbird-mozsymbols · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1:68.4.1+build1-0ubuntu1 thunderbird-mozsymbols 1:68.4.1+build1-0ubuntu1 Jan 8, 2020
xul-ext-calendar-timezones · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:68.4.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 xul-ext-calendar-timezones 1:68.4.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Jan 8, 2020
xul-ext-calendar-timezones · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1:68.4.1+build1-0ubuntu1 xul-ext-calendar-timezones 1:68.4.1+build1-0ubuntu1 Jan 8, 2020
xul-ext-gdata-provider · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:68.4.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 xul-ext-gdata-provider 1:68.4.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Jan 8, 2020
xul-ext-gdata-provider · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1:68.4.1+build1-0ubuntu1 xul-ext-gdata-provider 1:68.4.1+build1-0ubuntu1 Jan 8, 2020
xul-ext-lightning · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:68.4.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 xul-ext-lightning 1:68.4.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Jan 8, 2020
xul-ext-lightning · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1:68.4.1+build1-0ubuntu1 xul-ext-lightning 1:68.4.1+build1-0ubuntu1 Jan 8, 2020

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