cve-2020-15673
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-10-01 18:39
Modified
2024-08-04 13:22
Severity ?
Summary
Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 80 and Firefox ESR 78.2. 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 < 81, Thunderbird < 78.3, and Firefox ESR < 78.3.
References
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=1648493%2C1660800Broken Link, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00020.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202010-02Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4770Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-42/Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-43/Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-44/Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
MozillaFirefox
MozillaThunderbird
MozillaFirefox ESR
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