Bug 1801916 (CVE-2020-6796) - CVE-2020-6796 Mozilla: Missing bounds check on shared memory read in the parent process
Summary: CVE-2020-6796 Mozilla: Missing bounds check on shared memory read in the pare...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2020-6796
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1798931 1798932 1798933 1798934 1798935 1798936
Blocks: 1798927
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-02-11 22:41 UTC by Doran Moppert
Modified: 2021-02-16 20:35 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: firefox 68.5
Doc Type: No Doc Update
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Last Closed: 2020-02-17 14:13:10 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:0512 0 None None None 2020-02-17 08:29:58 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:0519 0 None None None 2020-02-17 09:54:22 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:0520 0 None None None 2020-02-17 12:36:41 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:0521 0 None None None 2020-02-17 12:21:29 UTC

Description Doran Moppert 2020-02-11 22:41:44 UTC 
A content process could have modified shared memory relating to crash reporting information, crash itself, and cause an out-of-bound write. This could have caused memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash.



External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-06/#CVE-2020-6796
Comment 1 Doran Moppert 2020-02-11 22:41:48 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Thomas Imbert
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2020-02-17 08:29:56 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2020:0512 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0512
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2020-02-17 09:54:18 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions

Via RHSA-2020:0519 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0519
Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2020-02-17 12:21:27 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2020:0521 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0521
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2020-02-17 12:36:40 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2020:0520 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0520
Comment 6 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-02-17 14:13:10 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-2020-6796
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