# CVE-2020-26972: The lifecycle of IPC Actors allows managed actors to outlive their manager actors; and the former must ensure that they are not attempting t

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 84
- Published: 2021-01-07 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- Mozilla Firefox: fixed in 84

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Mozilla Firefox, upgrade to a fixed version (84) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-54/
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1671382

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