CVE-2020-6826 (GCVE-0-2020-6826)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-04-24 15:51 – Updated: 2024-08-04 09:11
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Summary
Mozilla developers Tyson Smith, Bob Clary, and Alexandru Michis reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 74. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 75.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 75
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Mozilla Firefox Affected: unspecified , < 75 (custom)
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