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MFSA2021-16 Firefox: Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 88 (CVE-2021-29947)

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MFSA2021-16 Firefox: Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 88 (CVE-2021-29947)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/19/2021
Created
04/20/2021
Added
04/20/2021
Modified
06/28/2021

Description

Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 87. 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 < 88.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-88_0

References

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