CVE-2020-15683
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-10-22 20:32
Modified
2024-08-04 13:22
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
security@mozilla.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00057.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00062.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00074.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00077.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1576843%2C1656987%2C1660954%2C1662760%2C1663439%2C1666140Broken Link, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00027.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202010-08Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4780Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-45/Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-46/Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-47/Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
MozillaFirefox ESR
MozillaFirefox
MozillaThunderbird
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