Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 85. 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 < 86.
References
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1663222%2C1666607%2C1672120%2C1678463%2C1678927%2C1679560%2C1681297%2C1681684%2C1683490%2C1684377%2C1684902 | Exploit Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory |
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-07/ | Release Notes Vendor Advisory |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mozilla
Published: 2021-02-26T15:28:35
Updated: 2021-02-26T15:28:35
Reserved: 2021-01-13T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2021-23979
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2021-02-26T16:15:12.810
Modified: 2022-05-03T16:04:40.443
Link: CVE-2021-23979
JSON object: View
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CWE