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Oracle Linux: CVE-2020-16042: ELSA-2020-5618-1: thunderbird security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

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Oracle Linux: CVE-2020-16042: ELSA-2020-5618-1: thunderbird security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
12/02/2020
Created
12/18/2020
Added
12/17/2020
Modified
07/22/2024

Description

Uninitialized Use in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 87.0.4280.88 allowed a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memory via a crafted HTML page. The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as: When a BigInt was right-shifted the backing store was not properly cleared, allowing uninitialized memory to be read.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-firefox
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-thunderbird

References

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