high8.8
CVE-2020-15659
Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 78 and Firefox ESR 78.0.
Impact
Mozilla 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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Mozilla | Firefox | before 79.0 |
| Mozilla | Firefox Esr | before 68.11 from 78.0 before 78.1.0 |
| Mozilla | Thunderbird | before 68.11 from 78.0.1 before 78.1.0 |
| Opensuse | Leap | Versions 15.1, 15.2 |
| Canonical | Ubuntu Linux | Versions 16.04, 18.04, 20.04 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00022.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00025.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00032.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1550133%2C1633880%2C1643613%2C1644839%2C1645835%2C1646006%2C1646787%2C1649347%2C1650811%2C1651678
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4443-1/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-30/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-31/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-32/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-33/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-35/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00022.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00025.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00032.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1550133%2C1633880%2C1643613%2C1644839%2C1645835%2C1646006%2C1646787%2C1649347%2C1650811%2C1651678
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4443-1/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-30/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-31/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-32/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-33/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-35/