Bug 1829100 (CVE-2020-6801) - CVE-2020-6801 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 73
Summary: CVE-2020-6801 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 73
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2020-6801
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1798927
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Reported: 2020-04-28 21:27 UTC by msiddiqu
Modified: 2021-02-16 20:11 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: firefox 73
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Last Closed: 2020-04-28 21:40:30 UTC
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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.

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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
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