Bug 1829100 (CVE-2020-6801)

Summary:	CVE-2020-6801 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 73
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	msiddiqu
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	jhorak, security-response-team, stransky
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Description msiddiqu 2020-04-28 21:27:48 UTC

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.

External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-05/#CVE-2020-6801

Comment 2 msiddiqu 2020-04-28 21:40:44 UTC

Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Jason Kratzer, Tyson Smith, and Christian Holler