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    "vulnerability_id": "VCID-p7sz-zvg8-bbcd",
    "summary": "Mozilla developers Byron Campen and Christian Holler reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 80. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code.",
    "aliases": [
        {
            "alias": "CVE-2020-15674"
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            "cwe_id": 119,
            "name": "Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer",
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