CVE-2019-17024
High
CVE-2019-17024
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.
Exploit probability
2.5%
Published
January 8, 2020
Required by
Not available
Last source change
April 16, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2019-17024
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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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00029.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00043.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155912/Slackware-Security-Advisory-mozilla-thunderbird-Updates.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0085
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0086
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0111
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0120
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0123
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0127
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0292
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0295
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1507180%2C1595470%2C1598605%2C1601826
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00005.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00016.html
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/12
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/18
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/26
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-02
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4234-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4241-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4335-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4600
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4603
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-01/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-02/