Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-23988  

A security issue was found in Firefox before version 87. Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 86. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and Mozilla presumes that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Arbitrary code execution

Description

A security issue was found in Firefox before version 87. Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 86. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and Mozilla presumes that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code.

AVG-1728 firefox 86.0.1-1 87.0-1 High Fixed

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-10/#CVE-2021-23988
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1684994%2C1686653