CVE-2020-15659 Memory corruption in Firefox

What is CVE-2020-15659?

CVE-2020-15659 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 10 Aug 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 78 and Firefox ESR 78.0. 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 < 79, Firefox ESR < 68.11, Firefox ESR < 78.1, Thunderbird < 68.11, and Thunderbird < 78.1.

Weakness: CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-15659?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox Esr, Mozilla Thunderbird, Opensuse Leap.

How do I fix CVE-2020-15659?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2020-15659 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-15659 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2020-15659, GHSA-r2p6-cvv5-qcq5, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-15659.