CVE-2020-6831
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
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VIR risk
8.0
Description
A buffer overflow could occur when parsing and validating SCTP chunks in WebRTC. This could have led to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 68.8, Firefox < 76, and Thunderbird < 68.8.0.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-6831.html
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-6831
Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202005-2
Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202005-3
Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202005-7
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| arch | fixed | 68.8.0-1 | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 83.0.4103.83-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 83.0.4103.83-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 83.0.4103.83-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 83.0.4103.83-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 83.0.4103.83-1 |
| sles | affected | |
References
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.