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Mozilla Firefox < 70.0

critical Nessus Plugin ID 130169

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Synopsis

A web browser installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The version of Firefox installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 70.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2019-34 advisory.

 - Mozilla developers and community members Bob Clary, Jason Kratzer, Aaron Klotz, Iain Ireland, Tyson Smith, Christian Holler, Steve Fink, Honza Bambas, Byron Campen, and Cristian Brindusan reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 69 and Firefox ESR 68.1. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.
 (CVE-2019-11764)

 - A compromised child process could have injected XBL Bindings into privileged CSS rules, resulting in arbitrary code execution and a sandbox escape. (CVE-2019-25136)

 - Incorrect derivation of a packet length in WebRTC caused heap corruption via a crafted video file. This resulted in a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2018-6156)

 - In libexpat before 2.2.8, crafted XML input could fool the parser into changing from DTD parsing to document parsing too early. A subsequent call to <code>XMLGetCurrentLineNumber</code> or <code>XMLGetCurrentColumnNumber</code> then resulted in a heap-based buffer over-read. (CVE-2019-15903)

 - When storing a value in IndexedDB, the value's prototype chain is followed and it was possible to retain a reference to a locale, delete it, and subsequently reference it. This resulted in a use-after-free and a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2019-11757)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 70.0 or later.

See Also

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-34/

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 130169

File Name: macos_firefox_70_0.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 10/24/2019

Updated: 11/18/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11764

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-25136

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Mozilla Firefox

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/22/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/27/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-6156, CVE-2019-11757, CVE-2019-11759, CVE-2019-11760, CVE-2019-11761, CVE-2019-11762, CVE-2019-11763, CVE-2019-11764, CVE-2019-11765, CVE-2019-15903, CVE-2019-17000, CVE-2019-17001, CVE-2019-17002, CVE-2019-25136, CVE-2020-12412

BID: 104887

IAVA: 2019-A-0395-S

MFSA: 2019-34