UBUNTU-CVE-2019-11708

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UBUNTU-CVE-2019-11708

Summary:

Details: Insufficient vetting of parameters passed with the Prompt:Open IPC message between child and parent processes can result in the non-sandboxed parent process opening web content chosen by a compromised child process. When combined with additional vulnerabilities this could result in executing arbitrary code on the user's computer. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 60.7.2, Firefox < 67.0.4, and Thunderbird < 60.7.2.

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-11708, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-19/#CVE-2019-11708, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4032-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4045-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-11708, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog