CVE-2020-15683

Impact

Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 81 and Firefox ESR 78.3. 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 ESR < 78.4, Firefox < 82, and Thunderbird < 78.4.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00057.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00062.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00074.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00077.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1576843%2C1656987%2C1660954%2C1662760%2C1663439%2C1666140
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00027.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202010-08
• https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4780
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-45/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-46/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-47/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00057.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00062.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00074.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00077.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1576843%2C1656987%2C1660954%2C1662760%2C1663439%2C1666140
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00027.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202010-08
• https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4780
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-45/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-46/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-47/