Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-17017  

A type confusion issue has been found in Firefox before 72.0, in XPCVariant.cpp where, due to a missing case handling object types, a type confusion vulnerability could occur, resulting in a crash.

Severity Critical

Remote Yes

Type Arbitrary code execution

Description

A type confusion issue has been found in Firefox before 72.0, in XPCVariant.cpp where, due to a missing case handling object types, a type confusion vulnerability could occur, resulting in a crash.

AVG-1084 firefox 71.0-1 72.0-1 Critical Fixed

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-01/#CVE-2019-17017
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1603055