Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion') The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package thunderbird (opens in a new tab)
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- published29 Jul 2020
- disclosed10 Aug 2020
Introduced: 29 Jul 2020
CVE-2020-15656 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream thunderbird package and not the thunderbird package as distributed by Debian.
JIT optimizations involving the Javascript arguments object could confuse later optimizations. This risk was already mitigated by various precautions in the code, resulting in this bug rated at only moderate severity. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 78.1, Firefox < 79, and Thunderbird < 78.1.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2020-15656
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-15656
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1647293
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-30/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-32/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-33/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00025.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4443-1/