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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-6815: Out-of-bounds Write

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-6815: Out-of-bounds Write

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/25/2020
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

Description

Mozilla developers reported memory safety and script safety bugs present in Firefox 73. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption or escalation of privilege and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 74.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-firefox

References

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