CVE-2020-16042

Public on 2021-01-05
Modified on 2021-01-06
Description
The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

When a BigInt was right-shifted the backing store was not properly cleared, allowing uninitialized memory to be read.
Severity
Important severity
Important
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.5
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 2 - Core thunderbird 2021-01-05 ALAS2-2021-1586 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N