cve-2020-12426
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-07-09 14:39
Modified
2024-08-04 11:56
Severity ?
Summary
Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 77. 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 < 78.
Impacted products
MozillaFirefox
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