CVE-2020-15659

Firefox ESR and 2 others: Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 78 and Firefox…

CVE-2020-15659 is fixed in 11 products on 2 platforms, first by Mozilla Thunderbird (en-US) 78.1.0, released July 29, 2020. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

HighFixed on 2 platforms
CVSS
8.8
Important
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0239
84th percentile

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.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Windows apps
Mozilla Firefox ESR (en-US) 91.0 Mozilla Firefox ESR (en-US) 91.0 Aug 4, 2021
Mozilla Thunderbird (en-US) 78.1.0 Mozilla Thunderbird (en-US) 78.1.0 Jul 29, 2020
Linux
firefox · RHEL 8 0:68.11.0-1.el8_2 RHSA-2020:3241 Jul 30, 2020
firefox · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 79.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 firefox 79.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Aug 10, 2020
firefox · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 79.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 firefox 79.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Aug 10, 2020
firefox · ol 8 0:68.11.0-1.0.1.el8_2 ELSA-2020-3241 Jul 30, 2020
firefox-geckodriver · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 79.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 firefox-geckodriver 79.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Aug 10, 2020
firefox-geckodriver · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 79.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 firefox-geckodriver 79.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Aug 10, 2020
firefox-mozsymbols · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 79.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 firefox-mozsymbols 79.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Aug 10, 2020
firefox-mozsymbols · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 79.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 firefox-mozsymbols 79.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Aug 10, 2020
thunderbird · RHEL 8 0:68.11.0-1.el8_2 RHSA-2020:3341 Aug 6, 2020
thunderbird · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 thunderbird 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Apr 22, 2021
thunderbird · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 thunderbird 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Jan 25, 2021
thunderbird · ol 8 0:68.11.0-1.0.1.el8_2 ELSA-2020-3341 Aug 6, 2020
thunderbird-gnome-support · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 thunderbird-gnome-support 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Apr 22, 2021
thunderbird-gnome-support · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 thunderbird-gnome-support 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Jan 25, 2021
thunderbird-mozsymbols · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 thunderbird-mozsymbols 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Apr 22, 2021
thunderbird-mozsymbols · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 thunderbird-mozsymbols 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Jan 25, 2021
xul-ext-calendar-timezones · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 xul-ext-calendar-timezones 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Apr 22, 2021
xul-ext-calendar-timezones · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 xul-ext-calendar-timezones 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Jan 25, 2021
xul-ext-gdata-provider · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 xul-ext-gdata-provider 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Apr 22, 2021
xul-ext-gdata-provider · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 xul-ext-gdata-provider 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Jan 25, 2021
xul-ext-lightning · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 xul-ext-lightning 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Apr 22, 2021
xul-ext-lightning · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 xul-ext-lightning 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Jan 25, 2021

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