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Red Hat: CVE-2020-6822: CVE-2020-6822 Mozilla: Out of bounds write in GMPDecodeData when processing large images (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2020-6822: CVE-2020-6822 Mozilla: Out of bounds write in GMPDecodeData when processing large images (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/08/2020
Created
04/10/2020
Added
04/09/2020
Modified
12/15/2023

Description

On 32-bit builds, an out of bounds write could have occurred when processing an image larger than 4 GB in <code>GMPDecodeData</code>. It is possible that with enough effort this could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.7.0, Firefox ESR < 68.7, and Firefox < 75.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-firefox
  • redhat-upgrade-firefox-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-firefox-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-thunderbird
  • redhat-upgrade-thunderbird-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-thunderbird-debugsource

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