Bug 1834689 (CVE-2020-12396) - CVE-2020-12396 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 76
Summary: CVE-2020-12396 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 76
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2020-12396
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1834683
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-05-12 08:52 UTC by msiddiqu
Modified: 2021-02-16 20:04 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: firefox 76
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The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as: Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 75. 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.
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Last Closed: 2020-05-12 08:57:45 UTC
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Description msiddiqu 2020-05-12 08:52:30 UTC
Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 75. 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/mfsa2020-16/#CVE-2020-12396

Comment 1 msiddiqu 2020-05-12 08:52:34 UTC
Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Frederik Braun, Andrew McCreight, C.M.Chang, Dan Minor


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