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CVE-2020-6814
Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox and Thunderbird 68.5.
Impact
Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox and Thunderbird 68.5. 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 Thunderbird < 68.6, Firefox < 74, Firefox < ESR68.6, and Firefox ESR < 68.6.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Mozilla | Firefox | before 74.0 |
| Mozilla | Firefox Esr | before 68.6.0 |
| Mozilla | Thunderbird | before 68.6.0 |
| Canonical | Ubuntu Linux | Versions 16.04, 18.04, 19.10 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1592078%2C1604847%2C1608256%2C1612636%2C1614339
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4328-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4335-1/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-08/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-09/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-10/
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1592078%2C1604847%2C1608256%2C1612636%2C1614339
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4328-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4335-1/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-08/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-09/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-10/