CVE-2020-15673

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-15673
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-10-01 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-04-28 18:22:00 UTC
DescriptionMozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 80 and Firefox ESR 78.2. 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 < 81, Thunderbird < 78.3, and Firefox ESR < 78.3.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-416

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4770-1 thunderbird DEBIAN www.debian.org
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:1785-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Bug List MISC bugzilla.mozilla.org Broken Link, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 78.3 — Mozilla MISC www.mozilla.org Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:1780-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 78.3 — Mozilla MISC www.mozilla.org Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 81 — Mozilla MISC www.mozilla.org Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 2408-1] thunderbird security update MLIST lists.debian.org
Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202010-02) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 296071 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 27.82.1 Missing (CPUOCT2020)
  • 500936 Alpine Linux Security Update for firefox-esr
  • 500954 Alpine Linux Security Update for firefox
  • 503839 Alpine Linux Security Update for firefox
  • 750615 OpenSUSE Security Update for MozillaFirefox (openSUSE-SU-2020:1574-1)
  • 750622 OpenSUSE Security Update for MozillaFirefox (openSUSE-SU-2020:1555-1)
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