CVE-2020-6796

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-6796
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-03-02 05:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-03-12 00:15:00 UTC
DescriptionA content process could have modified shared memory relating to crash reporting information, crash itself, and cause an out-of-bound write. This could have caused memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 73 and Firefox < ESR68.5.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
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-4278-2: Firefox vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
Mozilla Firefox: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202003-02) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 73 — Mozilla MISC www.mozilla.org Vendor Advisory
1610426 - (CVE-2020-6796) No validation of array index (key) in xul!mozilla::ipc::CrashReporterMetadataShmem::ReadAppNotes leads to Stack Out-Of-Bounds write in the broker process (Sandbox Escape / LPE) MISC bugzilla.mozilla.org Permissions Required
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR68.5 — Mozilla MISC www.mozilla.org Vendor Advisory
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 296076 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 19.3.0 Missing (CPUJAN2020)
  • 377025 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for firefox (ALINUX2-SA-2020:0021)
  • 500926 Alpine Linux Security Update for firefox-esr
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