CVE-2020-6801

Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 72. 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 < 73.

Score

CVSS 3.1 8.8 High

Status

Modified - security@mozilla.org

Published

2020-03-02

Last modified

2024-08-04

Weaknesses

CWE-787

Affected products

• Ubuntu Linux (Canonical)
• Firefox (Mozilla)

References

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1601024%2C1601712%2C1604836%2C1606492
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4278-2/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-05/