Mozilla Firefox/Firefox ESR/Thunderbird HMAC buffer overflow

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in Mozilla Firefox, Firefox ESR and Thunderbird. Affected is an unknown function of the component HMAC Handler. The manipulation results in buffer overflow. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2019-11759. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Mozilla Firefox, Firefox ESR and Thunderbird (Web Browser) (affected version unknown). Affected is an unknown functionality of the component HMAC Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a buffer overflow vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-120. The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

An attacker could have caused 4 bytes of HMAC output to be written past the end of a buffer stored on the stack. This could be used by an attacker to execute arbitrary code or more likely lead to a crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 70, Thunderbird < 68.2, and Firefox ESR < 68.2.

The weakness was disclosed 01/08/2020 as Bug 1577953 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is available at bugzilla.mozilla.org. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2019-11759 since 05/03/2019. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 01/09/2020).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Web Browser

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• Mozilla

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• Firefox
• Firefox ESR
• Thunderbird

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• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.mozilla.org/
• Product: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

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