Buffer overflow in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2019-11764

 

Buffer overflow in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2019-11764

Published: October 23, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU22173
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-11764
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted website, trick the victim into visiting it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


Affected software

Mozilla Firefox
Firefox ESR
Arch Linux
Gentoo Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Slackware Linux
Opensuse
firefox (Ubuntu package)
thunderbird (Ubuntu package)
thunderbird (Debian package)
firefox-esr (Debian package)
firefox-esr (Alpine package)
firefox (Alpine package)
Mozilla Thunderbird

How to mitigate CVE-2019-11764

Install updates from vendor's website.

Mozilla Firefox - update to 70.0
firefox (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 70.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, 70.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 70.0+build2-0ubuntu0.19.04.1, 70.0+build2-0ubuntu0.19.10.1
thunderbird (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 1:68.2.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 1:68.2.1+build1-0ubuntu0.19.10.1, 1:68.2.2+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 1:68.2.2+build1-0ubuntu0.19.10.1, 1:68.7.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
thunderbird (Debian package) - addressed in versions 1:68.2.2-1~deb9u1, 1:68.2.2-1~deb10u1
Mozilla Thunderbird - update to 68.2.0
Firefox ESR - update to 68.2.0
firefox-esr (Debian package) - update to 68.2.0esr-1~deb10u1
firefox-esr (Alpine package) - update to 68.2.0-r0

External References

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