The lifecycle of IPC Actors allows managed actors to outlive their manager actors; and the former must ensure that they are not attempting to use a dead actor they have a reference to. Such a check was omitted in WebGL, resulting in a use-after-free and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 84.
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 9.8
- CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Linux | — | Upgrade librewolfUpgrade firefox | Aug 22, 2024 | Jan 7, 2021 |
| Arch Linux | — | Upgrade to the latest version of Arch Linux | Jul 11, 2025 | Jan 7, 2021 |
| Mfsa2020 54 | — | Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 84.0 | Dec 16, 2020 | Dec 15, 2020 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade firefox | Dec 16, 2020 | Dec 15, 2020 |
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