CVE-2019-17011

critical
Published 2019-12-05 ยท Modified 2019-12-10
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.5

Description

Under certain conditions, when retrieving a document from a DocShell in the antitracking code, a race condition could cause a use-after-free condition and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.3, Firefox ESR < 68.3, and Firefox < 71.

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.

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OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
โ€” Affected โ€”
arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
โ€” Fixed 68.3.0-1
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 68.3.0esr-1
sid Fixed 71.0-1
forky Fixed 68.3.0esr-1
bullseye Fixed 68.3.0esr-1
bookworm Fixed 68.3.0esr-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.