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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-12426: Out-of-bounds Write

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Published

Jul 9, 2020

Added

Aug 22, 2024

Modified

Jun 18, 2026

Description

Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 77. 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 < 78.

Solutions

alpine-linux-upgrade-firefoxalpine-linux-upgrade-librewolf

References

CVE-2020-12426
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2020-12426
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2020-12426
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2020-4738
CWE-787
EUVD-EUVD-2020-4738

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