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Arch Linux: Arbitrary code execution (CVE-2020-12411)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jul 9, 2020
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

Mozilla developers :Gijs (he/him), Randell Jesup reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 76. 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.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest
Title
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