Number: AV19-123
Date: 24 June 2019
On 20 June 2019, Mozilla released a security update to address a vulnerability affecting Mozilla products. A new vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-11708, when combined with additional vulnerabilities could be exploited with a specially crafted Prompt:Open IPC message.
CCCS encourages users and administrators to review all the Mozilla Security Advisories and apply the necessary updates:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-20/
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