CVE-2020-12410

Summary

CVECVE-2020-12410
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-07-09 15:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-05-03 13:57:00 UTC
DescriptionMozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 76 and Firefox ESR 68.8. 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 < 68.9.0, Firefox < 77, and Firefox ESR < 68.9.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 20.04 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox All All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox All All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox Esr All All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox Esr All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
USN-4421-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 68.9.0 — Mozilla MISC www.mozilla.org Vendor Advisory
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 77 — Mozilla MISC www.mozilla.org Vendor Advisory
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 68.9 — Mozilla MISC www.mozilla.org Vendor Advisory
Bug List MISC bugzilla.mozilla.org Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 377192 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for firefox (ALINUX2-SA-2020:0096)
  • 500931 Alpine Linux Security Update for firefox-esr
  • 501079 Alpine Linux Security Update for mozjs68
  • 502375 Alpine Linux Security Update for thunderbird
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