CVE-2020-15659

Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 79 and Firefox ESR 68.11

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

8.8

CVSS 3.1

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Published · July 28, 2020

Updated · June 27, 2026

Description

The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

Mozilla developers Jason Kratzer and Luke Wagner reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 78 and Firefox ESR 68.01. 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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-120 · Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')