CVE-2021-23988 (GCVE-0-2021-23988)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-03-31 13:40 – Updated: 2024-08-03 19:14
VLAI?
Summary
Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 86. 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 < 87.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 87
Assigner
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