CVE-2020-6801 - Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 73

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HIGH

Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 73

Published Mar 2, 2020

8.8

HIGH

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 1.41%

Description

Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 72. 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 < 73.

Affected products

Vendor Mozilla Product Firefox Default
n/a
- Version
  unspecified
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  <73

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor

Product

Default status

Versions

Mozilla

Firefox

n/a

Version	Status	Constraints
unspecified	affected	<73

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

firefox

Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

firefox

Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

firefox

Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

firefox

Not affected

Product	Package	State	Advisory
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	firefox	Out of support scope	n/a
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	firefox	Not affected	n/a
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	firefox	Not affected	n/a
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	firefox	Not affected	n/a

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (2)

CWE-120

Classic Buffer Overflow

CWE-787

Out-of-bounds Write

References (8)

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-6801
Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1601024%2C1601712%2C1604836%2C1606492
x_refsource_MISCBroken LinkIssue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1829100
Issue Tracking
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-6801
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4278-2/
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUThird Party Advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-6801
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-05/#CVE-2020-6801
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-05/
x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-6801		Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1601024%2C1601712%2C1604836%2C1606492		x_refsource_MISCBroken LinkIssue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1829100		Issue Tracking
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-6801
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4278-2/		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUThird Party Advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-6801
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-05/#CVE-2020-6801
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-05/		x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory