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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.2.1.2020.45
Category:General
Title:Mozilla Firefox Security Advisory (MFSA2020-45) - Linux
Summary:This host is missing a security update for Mozilla Firefox.
Description:Summary:
This host is missing a security update for Mozilla Firefox.

Vulnerability Insight:
CVE-2020-15969: Use-after-free in usersctp
A use-after-free bug in the usersctp library was reported upstream. We assume this could have led to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash.

CVE-2020-15254: Undefined behavior in bounded channel of crossbeam rust crate
In the crossbeam rust crate, the bounded channel incorrectly assumed that Vec::from_iter had allocated capacity that was the same as the number of iterator elements. Vec::from_iter does not actually guarantee that and may allocate extra memory. The destructor of the bounded channel reconstructs Vec from the raw pointer based on the incorrect assumptions - this is unsound and caused a deallocation with the incorrect capacity when Vec::from_iter had allocated different sizes than the number of iterator elements. The impact on Firefox is undetermined, but in another use case, the behavior was causing corruption of jemalloc structures.

CVE-2020-15680: Presence of external protocol handlers could be determined through image tags
If a valid external protocol handler was referenced in an image tag, the resulting broken image size could be distinguished from a broken image size of a non-existent protocol handler. This allowed an attacker to successfully probe whether an external protocol handler was registered.

CVE-2020-15681: Multiple WASM threads may have overwritten each others' stub table entries
When multiple WASM threads had a reference to a module, and were looking up exported functions, one WASM thread could have overwritten another's entry in a shared stub table, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash.

CVE-2020-15682: The domain associated with the prompt to open an external protocol could be spoofed to display the incorrect origin
When a link to an external protocol was clicked, a prompt was presented that allowed the user to choose what application to open it in. An attacker could induce that prompt to be associated with an origin they didn't control, resulting in a spoofing attack. This was fixed by changing external protocol prompts to be tab-modal while also ensuring they could not be incorrectly associated with a different origin.

CVE-2020-15683: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 82 and Firefox ESR 78.4
Mozilla developers and community members Simon Giesecke, Christian Holler, Philipp, and Jason Kratzer reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 81 and Firefox ESR 78.3. 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.

CVE-2020-15684: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 82
Mozilla developers Christian Holler, Sebastian Hengst, Bogdan Tara, and Tyson Smith 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.

Affected Software/OS:
Firefox version(s) below 82.

Solution:
The vendor has released an update. Please see the reference(s) for more information.

CVSS Score:
7.5

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-15254
https://github.com/crossbeam-rs/crossbeam/security/advisories/GHSA-v5m7-53cv-f3hx
https://github.com/RustSec/advisory-db/pull/425
https://github.com/crossbeam-rs/crossbeam/issues/539
https://github.com/crossbeam-rs/crossbeam/pull/533
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-15680
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1658881
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-45/
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-15681
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1666568
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-15682
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1636654
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-15683
Debian Security Information: DSA-4780 (Google Search)
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4780
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202010-08
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1576843%2C1656987%2C1660954%2C1662760%2C1663439%2C1666140
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-46/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-47/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00027.html
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2020:1732 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00057.html
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2020:1748 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00062.html
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2020:1780 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00074.html
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2020:1785 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00077.html
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-15684
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1653764%2C1661402%2C1662259%2C1664257
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-15969
Debian Security Information: DSA-4824 (Google Search)
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4824
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4GWCWNHTTYOH6HSFUXPGPBB6J6JYZHZE/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SC3U3H6AISVZB5PLZLLNF4HMQ4UFFL7M/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/24QFL4C3AZKMFVL7LVSYMU2DNE5VVUGS/
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Dec/24
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Dec/26
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Dec/27
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Dec/29
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Dec/30
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-30
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
https://crbug.com/1124659
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2020:1829 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00016.html
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