CVE-2020-6795

critical
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
9.5

Description

When processing a message that contains multiple S/MIME signatures, a bug in the MIME processing code caused a null pointer dereference, leading to an unexploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.5.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-6795

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202002-9

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed68.5.0-1
debian debianbookwormfixed1:68.5.0-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1:68.5.0-1
debian debianforkyfixed1:68.5.0-1
debian debiansidfixed1:68.5.0-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1:68.5.0-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.