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CVE-2019-9789 (GCVE-0-2019-9789)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-04-26 16:13 – Updated: 2024-08-04 22:01
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Summary
Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 65. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort that some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 66.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 66
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Mozilla Firefox Affected: unspecified , < 66 (custom)
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