Vulnerability CVE-2020-26970: Information

Description

When reading SMTP server status codes, Thunderbird writes an integer value to a position on the stack that is intended to contain just one byte. Depending on processor architecture and stack layout, this leads to stack corruption that may be exploitable. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.5.1.

Severity: HIGH (8.8) Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Published: Dec. 9, 2020
Modified: Dec. 10, 2020
Error type identifier: CWE-787

Fixed packages

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Hyperlink
Resource
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1677338
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  • Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-53/
  • Vendor Advisory
    1. Configuration 1

      cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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      78.5.1