CVE-2019-17005
critical
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
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VIR risk
9.5
Description
The plain text serializer used a fixed-size array for the number of <ol> elements it could process; however it was possible to overflow the static-sized array leading to memory corruption 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
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-17005
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-17005.html
Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201912-1
Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201912-2
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| arch | fixed | 68.3.0-1 | |
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | sid | fixed | 71.0-1 |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 68.3.0esr-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 68.3.0esr-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 68.3.0esr-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 68.3.0esr-1 |
References
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.