Buffer overflow in Firefox ESR and Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2020-15683

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Buffer overflow in Firefox ESR and Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2020-15683

Published: October 20, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU47746
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-15683
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted webpage, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


Affected software

Firefox ESR
Mozilla Firefox
Arch Linux
Gentoo Linux
Debian Linux
CentOS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS
Opensuse
Ubuntu
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions
firefox-esr (Debian package)
firefox (Alpine package)
firefox-esr (Alpine package)
thunderbird (Red Hat package)
firefox (Red Hat package)
thunderbird (Alpine package)
thunderbird (Debian package)
thunderbird (Ubuntu package)
firefox (Ubuntu package)
Mozilla Thunderbird

How to mitigate CVE-2020-15683

Install updates from vendor's website.

Firefox ESR - update to 78.4.0
Mozilla Firefox - update to 82.0
Mozilla Thunderbird - update to 78.4.0
firefox-esr (Debian package) - update to 78.4.0esr-1~deb10u2
firefox-esr (Alpine package) - update to 78.5.0-r0
thunderbird (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 78.4.0-1.el6_10, 78.4.0-1.el7_9, 78.4.0-1.el8_0, 78.4.0-1.el8_1, 78.4.0-1.el8_2, 78.4.0-1.el8_3
firefox (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 78.4.0-1.el7_9, 78.4.0-1.el8_0, 78.4.0-1.el8_1, 78.4.0-1.el8_2, 78.4.0-2.el6_10
thunderbird (Alpine package) - update to 78.5.1-r0
thunderbird (Debian package) - update to 1:78.4.0-1~deb10u1
thunderbird (Ubuntu package) - update to 1:78.5.0+build3-0ubuntu0.20.10.1
firefox (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 82.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.5, 82.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 82.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1, 82.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.10.1

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