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CVE-2020-6796 (GCVE-0-2020-6796)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-03-02 04:05 – Updated: 2024-08-04 09:11
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Summary
A content process could have modified shared memory relating to crash reporting information, crash itself, and cause an out-of-bound write. This could have caused memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 73 and Firefox < ESR68.5.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Missing bounds check on shared memory read in the parent process
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Mozilla Firefox Affected: unspecified , < 73 (custom)
Affected: unspecified , < ESR68.5 (custom)
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