CVE-2020-6796

Mozilla: Missing bounds check on shared memory read in the parent process

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

8.8

CVSS 3.1

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Published · February 11, 2020

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

A content process could have modified shared memory relating to crash reporting information, crash itself, and cause an out-of-bound write. This could have caused memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 73 and Firefox < ESR68.5.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write