Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 71 and Firefox ESR 68.3. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory…

Description

Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 71 and Firefox ESR 68.3. 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 ESR < 68.4 and Firefox < 72.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.5% · top 16% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.

Weakness

• Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 72 and Firefox ESR 68.4
• CWE-787 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-787 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Mozilla · Firefox ESR

  • affected before 68.4

• Mozilla · Firefox

  • affected before 72

References (25)

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1507180%2C1595470%2C1598605%2C1601826 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-01/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-02/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 20200109 [SECURITY] [DSA 4600-1] firefox-esr security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• [debian-lts-announce] 20200109 [SECURITY] [DLA 2061-1] firefox-esr security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• DSA-4600 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• USN-4234-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• 20200112 [slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird (SSA:2020-010-01) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• RHSA-2020:0085 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2020:0086 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155912/Slackware-Security-Advisory-mozilla-thunderbird-Updates.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• RHSA-2020:0111 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2020:0060 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• RHSA-2020:0120 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2020:0123 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2020:0127 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• USN-4241-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• DSA-4603 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• 20200120 [SECURITY] [DSA 4603-1] thunderbird security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• [debian-lts-announce] 20200120 [SECURITY] [DLA 2071-1] thunderbird security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2020:0094 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• RHSA-2020:0292 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2020:0295 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• GLSA-202003-02 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• USN-4335-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 01:24 UTC.