CVE-2021-29990 (GCVE-0-2021-29990)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-08-17 19:12 – Updated: 2024-08-03 22:24
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Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 90. 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 < 91.
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  • Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 91
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Mozilla Firefox Affected: unspecified , < 91 (custom)
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