Race Condition The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package MozillaFirefox-buildsymbols  (opens in a new tab)


Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
11.97% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-MOZILLAFIREFOXBUILDSYMBOLS-2713179
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed6 Apr 2020

Introduced: 6 Apr 2020

CVE-2020-6819  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The SLES security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for SLES:15.1.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream MozillaFirefox-buildsymbols package and not the MozillaFirefox-buildsymbols package as distributed by SLES.

Under certain conditions, when running the nsDocShell destructor, a race condition can cause a use-after-free. We are aware of targeted attacks in the wild abusing this flaw. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.7.0, Firefox < 74.0.1, and Firefox ESR < 68.6.1.