Bug 1898737 (CVE-2020-26960)

Summary: CVE-2020-26960 Mozilla: Potential use-after-free in uses of nsTArray
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Doran Moppert <dmoppert>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: cschalle, erack, gecko-bugs-nobody, jhorak, stransky, tpopela
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Bug Depends On: 1895993, 1895994, 1895995, 1895996, 1895997, 1895998, 1895999, 1898749, 1898750, 1898751, 1898752, 1898753, 1898754, 1898755    
Bug Blocks: 1895990    

Description Doran Moppert 2020-11-18 00:43:35 UTC
If the `Compact()` method was called on an nsTArray, the array could have been reallocated without updating other pointers, leading to a potential use-after-free and exploitable crash.



External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-51/#CVE-2020-26960

Comment 1 Doran Moppert 2020-11-18 00:43:39 UTC
Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Zijie Zhao

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2020-11-30 08:35:41 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions

Via RHSA-2020:5240 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5240

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2020-11-30 08:40:18 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2020:5231 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5231

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2020-11-30 08:46:01 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2020:5233 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5233

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2020-11-30 08:50:08 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2020:5236 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5236

Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2020-11-30 08:53:31 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2020:5232 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5232

Comment 17 errata-xmlrpc 2020-11-30 08:57:59 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2020:5234 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5234

Comment 18 errata-xmlrpc 2020-11-30 08:58:44 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2020:5238 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5238

Comment 19 errata-xmlrpc 2020-11-30 10:38:43 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2020:5237 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5237

Comment 20 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-11-30 11:34:24 UTC
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-26960

Comment 21 errata-xmlrpc 2020-11-30 18:25:52 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2020:5235 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5235

Comment 22 errata-xmlrpc 2020-11-30 19:42:50 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2020:5257 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5257

Comment 23 errata-xmlrpc 2020-11-30 23:05:29 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2020:5239 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5239

Comment 24 errata-xmlrpc 2020-12-01 15:24:45 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions

Via RHSA-2020:5314 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5314