CVE-2020-26972
Summary
| CVE | CVE-2020-26972 |
|---|---|
| State | PUBLIC |
| Assigner | [email protected] |
| Source Priority | CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback |
| Published | 2021-01-07 14:15:00 UTC |
| Updated | 2021-01-11 19:39:00 UTC |
| Description | The lifecycle of IPC Actors allows managed actors to outlive their manager actors; and the former must ensure that they are not attempting to use a dead actor they have a reference to. Such a check was omitted in WebGL, resulting in a use-after-free and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 84. |
Risk And Classification
Problem Types: CWE-416
NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)
References
| Reference | Source | Link | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 84 — Mozilla | MISC | www.mozilla.org | Vendor Advisory |
| Access Denied | MISC | bugzilla.mozilla.org | Permissions Required |
| CVE Program record | CVE.ORG | www.cve.org | canonical |
| NVD vulnerability detail | NVD | nvd.nist.gov | canonical, analysis |
No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE.