Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 82 and Firefox ESR 78.4. 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 < 83, Firefox ESR < 78.5, and Thunderbird < 78.5.
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 firefox-esrUpgrade librewolfUpgrade firefoxUpgrade thunderbirdUpgrade mozjs78 | Jan 4, 2021 | Dec 9, 2020 |
| Amazon Linux Ami 2 | — | Upgrade thunderbirdUpgrade thunderbird-debuginfo | Jan 8, 2021 | Dec 9, 2020 |
| Arch Linux | — | Upgrade to the latest version of Arch Linux | Jul 11, 2025 | Dec 9, 2020 |
| Centos_linux | — | Upgrade thunderbird-debuginfoUpgrade firefox-debugsourceUpgrade firefoxUpgrade thunderbirdUpgrade firefox-debuginfoUpgrade thunderbird-debugsource | Dec 1, 2020 | Nov 30, 2020 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade firefox-esrUpgrade thunderbird | Nov 20, 2020 | Nov 20, 2020 |
| Gentoo Linux | — | Upgrade www-client/firefox.Upgrade www-client/firefox-bin.Upgrade mail-client/thunderbird.Upgrade mail-client/thunderbird-bin. | Dec 7, 2020 | Dec 7, 2020 |
| Mfsa2020 50 | — | Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 83.0 | Nov 18, 2020 | Nov 17, 2020 |
| Mfsa2020 51 | — | Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox ESR version 78.5 | Nov 18, 2020 | Nov 17, 2020 |
| Mozilla Thunderbird | — | Upgrade to Mozilla Thunderbird version 78.5 | Nov 18, 2020 | Nov 17, 2020 |
| Oracle Solaris | — | Upgrade web/browser/firefox to version 78.5.0-11.4.28.0.1.82.2 on Solaris 11.4Upgrade mail/thunderbird to version 78.5.0-11.4.28.0.1.82.2 on Solaris 11.4Upgrade library/libmozjs-78 to version 78.11.0-11.4.39.0.1.107.0 on Solaris 11.4Upgrade web/data/firefox-bookmarks to version 78.5.0-11.4.28.0.1.82.2 on Solaris 11.4 | Jan 19, 2021 | Dec 9, 2020 |
| Oracle_linux | — | Upgrade firefoxUpgrade thunderbird | Dec 1, 2020 | Nov 17, 2020 |
| Redhat_linux | — | Upgrade firefox-debuginfoUpgrade thunderbird-debuginfoUpgrade firefoxUpgrade firefox-debugsourceUpgrade thunderbirdUpgrade thunderbird-debugsourceNo solution exists | Dec 1, 2020 | Nov 30, 2020 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade mozillafirefox-branding-upstreamUpgrade mozillafirefox-buildsymbolsUpgrade mozillafirefoxUpgrade mozillafirefox-translations-commonUpgrade mozillathunderbird-translations-otherUpgrade mozillathunderbirdUpgrade mozillathunderbird-translations-commonUpgrade mozillafirefox-translations-otherUpgrade mozillafirefox-devel | Nov 25, 2020 | Nov 18, 2020 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade thunderbirdUpgrade firefox | Nov 19, 2020 | Nov 18, 2020 |
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