UBUNTU-CVE-2019-17005

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2019-17005

    Published: 4 Dec 2019Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2019-17005
    Aliases:
    USN-4216-1
    USN-4216-2
    USN-4241-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-17005, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-36/#CVE-2019-17005, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-37/#CVE-2019-17005, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-38/#CVE-2019-17005, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4216-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4216-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4241-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4335-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-17005

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: firefox

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+build5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -71.0+build5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

    Affected versions

    41.0.2+build2-0ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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