Vulnerability CVE-2020-15683: Information

Description

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.

Severity: CRITICAL (9.8) Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Published: Oct. 23, 2020
Modified: April 28, 2022
Error type identifier: CWE-787CWE-416

Fixed packages

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Hyperlink
Resource
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-45/
  • Release Notes
  • Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-46/
  • Release Notes
  • Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-47/
  • Release Notes
  • Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1576843%2C1656987%2C1660954%2C1662760%2C1663439%2C1666140
  • Broken Link
  • Issue Tracking
  • Vendor Advisory
DSA-4780
  • Third Party Advisory
openSUSE-SU-2020:1732
  • Mailing List
  • Third Party Advisory
openSUSE-SU-2020:1748
  • Mailing List
  • Third Party Advisory
[debian-lts-announce] 20201027 [SECURITY] [DLA 2416-1] thunderbird security update
  • Mailing List
  • Third Party Advisory
GLSA-202010-08
  • Third Party Advisory
openSUSE-SU-2020:1785
  • Mailing List
  • Third Party Advisory
openSUSE-SU-2020:1780
  • Mailing List
  • Third Party Advisory
    1. Configuration 1

      cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
      End excliding
      78.4

      cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
      End excliding
      78.4

      cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
      End excliding
      82.0

      Configuration 2

      cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

      cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

      Configuration 3

      cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

      cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*