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Red Hat: CVE-2020-12396: Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 76

Name: Red Hat: CVE-2020-12396: Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 76
Creator: Red Hat
Published: 2020-05-26T00:00:00.000Z
Keywords: CVE, Red Hat, 2020, 12396, Mozilla, no-fix-redhat-rpm-package, Severity 8

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Published

May 26, 2020

Added

Jul 9, 2025

Modified

Jul 9, 2025

Description

Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 75. 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 < 76.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package

References

NVD-CVE-2020-12396

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