Use After Free Affecting librewolf package, versions <84.0.1-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.31% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE321-LIBREWOLF-8487486
  • published6 Dec 2024
  • disclosed7 Jan 2021

Introduced: 7 Jan 2021

CVE-2020-26972  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.21 librewolf to version 84.0.1-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream librewolf package and not the librewolf package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.21 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1