vulnerability
MFSA2020-24 Firefox: Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 78 (CVE-2020-12426)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Jun 30, 2020 | Jul 2, 2020 | Mar 27, 2026 |
Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jun 30, 2020
Added
Jul 2, 2020
Modified
Mar 27, 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.
Solution
mozilla-firefox-upgrade-78_0
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