CVE-2020-15659

Summary

CVECVE-2020-15659
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-08-10 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-08-21 18:21:00 UTC
DescriptionMozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 78 and Firefox ESR 78.0. 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 Firefox < 79, Firefox ESR < 68.11, Firefox ESR < 78.1, Thunderbird < 68.11, and Thunderbird < 78.1.

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 20.04 All All All
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 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
Application Mozilla Thunderbird All All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird All All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.2 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.2 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 79 — Mozilla MISC www.mozilla.org Vendor Advisory
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 68.11 — Mozilla MISC www.mozilla.org Vendor Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:1189-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:1205-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 78.1 — Mozilla MISC www.mozilla.org Vendor Advisory
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 78.1 — Mozilla MISC www.mozilla.org Vendor Advisory
USN-4443-1: Firefox vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Bug List MISC bugzilla.mozilla.org Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:1179-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 68.11 — Mozilla MISC www.mozilla.org Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 296072 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 25.75.3 Missing (CPUJUL2020)
  • 377050 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for firefox (ALINUX2-SA-2020:0109)
  • 500932 Alpine Linux Security Update for firefox-esr
  • 500952 Alpine Linux Security Update for firefox
  • 501075 Alpine Linux Security Update for mozjs68
  • 503837 Alpine Linux Security Update for firefox
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