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Mozilla releases Firefox 84.0.2, fix for critical vulnerability (CVE-2020-16044)

Security Updates & Patches, Vulnerabilities & Exploits / Frank Crast / January 7, 2021 / CVE-2020-16044, Firefox, Firefox 84, Mozilla

The Mozilla Foundation has released Firefox 84.0.2 that includes a security fix for a Critical vulnerability CVE-2020-16044. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to take control of impacted systems. As part of Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2021-01, Firefox 84.0.2 patched a Critical ‘Use-after-free write’ vulnerability CVE-2020-16044. According to Mozilla, “a malicious peer could have modified a COOKIE-ECHO chunk […]

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