| Name | CVE-2020-15656 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| NVD severity | high |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| firefox (PTS) | sid | 81.0-2 | fixed |
| thunderbird (PTS) | stretch | 1:68.10.0-1~deb9u1 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 1:68.12.0-1~deb9u2 | fixed | |
| buster | 1:68.10.0-1~deb10u1 | fixed | |
| buster (security) | 1:68.12.0-1~deb10u1 | fixed | |
| bullseye, sid | 1:68.12.0-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| firefox | source | (unstable) | 79.0-1 | |||
| thunderbird | source | (unstable) | (not affected) |
- thunderbird <not-affected> (Only affects Thunderbird 78.x)
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-32/#CVE-2020-15656
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-33/#CVE-2020-15656