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CVE-2020-15684

Publication date 22 October 2020

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 81. 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 < 82.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
firefox 24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 82.0.2+build1-0ubuntu1
23.10 mantic
Fixed 82.0.2+build1-0ubuntu1
23.04 lunar
Fixed 82.0.2+build1-0ubuntu1
22.10 kinetic
Fixed 82.0.2+build1-0ubuntu1
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 82.0.2+build1-0ubuntu1
21.10 impish
Fixed 82.0.2+build1-0ubuntu1
21.04 hirsute
Fixed 82.0.2+build1-0ubuntu1
20.10 groovy
Fixed 82.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.10.1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 82.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 82.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 82.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.5
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
mozjs38 24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
23.04 lunar Not in release
22.10 kinetic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
21.10 impish Not in release
21.04 hirsute Not in release
20.10 groovy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic Ignored
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
mozjs52 24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
23.04 lunar Not in release
22.10 kinetic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
21.10 impish Not in release
21.04 hirsute Not in release
20.10 groovy Ignored end of life
20.04 LTS focal Ignored
18.04 LTS bionic Ignored
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
mozjs60 24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
23.04 lunar Not in release
22.10 kinetic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
21.10 impish Not in release
21.04 hirsute Not in release
20.10 groovy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
mozjs68 24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
23.04 lunar Not in release
22.10 kinetic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
21.10 impish Not in release
21.04 hirsute Not in release
20.10 groovy Ignored end of life
20.04 LTS focal Ignored
18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Notes

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mozjs contains a copy of the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8 · Critical
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-4599-1
    • Firefox vulnerabilities
    • 23 October 2020
    • USN-4599-2
    • Firefox vulnerabilities
    • 26 October 2020

Other references