Race condition leading to use-after-free vulnerability in Thunderbird and Firefox

Race condition leading to use-after-free vulnerability in Thunderbird and Firefox

CVE-2019-17011 · HIGH Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Under certain conditions, when retrieving a document from a DocShell in the antitracking code, a race condition could cause a use-after-free condition and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.3, Firefox ESR < 68.3, and Firefox < 71.

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