Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 78 and Firefox ESR 78.0. 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 < 79, Firefox ESR < 68.11, Firefox ESR < 78.1, Thunderbird < 68.11, and Thunderbird < 78.1.
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 8.8
- CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Linux | — | Upgrade firefoxUpgrade thunderbirdUpgrade mozjs68Upgrade firefox-esrUpgrade librewolf | Aug 22, 2024 | Aug 10, 2020 |
| Amazon Linux Ami 2 | — | Upgrade thunderbirdUpgrade thunderbird-debuginfo | Sep 3, 2020 | Aug 10, 2020 |
| Centos_linux | — | Upgrade firefox-debuginfoUpgrade thunderbird-debuginfoUpgrade thunderbird-debugsourceUpgrade firefox-debugsourceUpgrade firefoxUpgrade thunderbird | Jul 31, 2020 | Jul 29, 2020 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade thunderbirdUpgrade firefox-esr | Jul 30, 2020 | Jul 30, 2020 |
| Gentoo Linux | — | Upgrade mail-client/thunderbird.Upgrade www-client/firefox.Upgrade www-client/firefox-bin.Upgrade mail-client/thunderbird-bin. | Jul 31, 2020 | Jul 30, 2020 |
| Mfsa2020 30 | — | Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 79.0 | Jul 29, 2020 | Jul 28, 2020 |
| Mfsa2020 31 | — | Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox ESR version 68.11 | Jul 29, 2020 | Jul 28, 2020 |
| Mfsa2020 32 | — | Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox ESR version 78.1 | Jul 29, 2020 | Jul 28, 2020 |
| Mozilla Thunderbird | — | Upgrade to Mozilla Thunderbird version 68.11 | Jul 29, 2020 | Jul 28, 2020 |
| Oracle Solaris | — | Upgrade web/browser/firefox to version 68.11.0-11.4.25.0.1.75.1 on Solaris 11.4Upgrade mail/thunderbird/plugin/thunderbird-lightning to version 68.11.0-11.4.25.0.1.75.1 on Solaris 11.4Upgrade web/data/firefox-bookmarks to version 68.11.0-11.4.25.0.1.75.1 on Solaris 11.4Upgrade mail/thunderbird to version 68.11.0-11.4.25.0.1.75.1 on Solaris 11.4 | Jan 19, 2021 | Aug 10, 2020 |
| Oracle_linux | — | Upgrade firefoxUpgrade thunderbird | Aug 1, 2020 | Jul 28, 2020 |
| Redhat_linux | — | Upgrade thunderbirdUpgrade firefox-debuginfoUpgrade thunderbird-debugsourceUpgrade thunderbird-debuginfoUpgrade firefox-debugsourceNo solution existsUpgrade firefox | Jul 31, 2020 | Jul 29, 2020 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade mozillafirefox-translations-commonUpgrade mozillathunderbird-translations-otherUpgrade pipewire-libjack-0_3Upgrade pipewire-spa-plugins-0_2Upgrade mozillathunderbirdUpgrade libpipewire-0_3-0Upgrade pipewire-libpulse-0_3Upgrade mozillafirefox-buildsymbolsUpgrade pipewire-modulesUpgrade pipewire-docUpgrade mozillafirefox-branding-sleUpgrade mozillafirefoxUpgrade mozillafirefox-translations-otherUpgrade mozillafirefox-develUpgrade pipewire-develUpgrade pipewire-spa-toolsUpgrade mozillafirefox-branding-upstreamUpgrade pipewireUpgrade mozillathunderbird-translations-commonUpgrade gstreamer-plugin-pipewireUpgrade pipewire-tools | Aug 1, 2020 | Jul 31, 2020 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade firefox | Aug 5, 2020 | Jul 29, 2020 |
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