CVE-2020-12405 (NVD)

2020-07-09

When browsing a malicious page, a race condition in our SharedWorkerService could occur and lead to a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.9.0, Firefox < 77, and Firefox ESR < 68.9.

Products Ubuntu_linux, Firefox, Firefox_esr, Thunderbird
Type Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition') (CWE-362)
Use After Free (CWE-416)
First patch - None (likely due to unavailable code)
Links https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1631618
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-22/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4421-1/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-21/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-20/