CVE-2019-17012: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 70 and Firefox ESR 68.2. 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 Thunderbird < 68.3, Firefox ESR < 68.3, and Firefox < 71.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 19.10 only
• Mozilla Firefox: before 71.0 (fixed in 71.0)
• Mozilla Firefox ESR: before 68.3 (fixed in 68.3)
• Mozilla Thunderbird: before 68.3 (fixed in 68.3)
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.1 only

Published 2020-01-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.