CVE-2020-6825
critical
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
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VIR risk
9.5
Description
Mozilla developers and community members Tyson Smith and Christian Holler reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 74 and Firefox ESR 68.6. 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 Thunderbird < 68.7.0, Firefox ESR < 68.7, and Firefox < 75.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-6825
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-6825.html
Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202004-8
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| arch | fixed | 75.0-1 | |
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | sid | fixed | 75.0-1 |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 68.7.0esr-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 68.7.0esr-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 68.7.0esr-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 68.7.0esr-1 |
References
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.