CVE-2019-11757

critical
Published 2019-10-24 ยท Modified 2019-10-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.5

Description

When following the value's prototype chain, it was possible to retain a reference to a locale, delete it, and subsequently reference it. This resulted in a use-after-free and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 70, Thunderbird < 68.2, and Firefox ESR < 68.2.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
โ€” Fixed 70.0-1
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 68.2.0esr-1
sid Fixed 70.0-1
forky Fixed 68.2.0esr-1
bullseye Fixed 68.2.0esr-1
bookworm Fixed 68.2.0esr-1
redhat Red Hat Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
8 Fixed โ€”

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.