Race Condition The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package MozillaFirefox-buildsymbols  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-MOZILLAFIREFOXBUILDSYMBOLS-2711400
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed7 May 2020

Introduced: 7 May 2020

CVE-2020-12387  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The SLES security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for SLES:15.1.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream MozillaFirefox-buildsymbols package and not the MozillaFirefox-buildsymbols package as distributed by SLES.

A race condition when running shutdown code for Web Worker led to a use-after-free vulnerability. This resulted in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 68.8, Firefox < 76, and Thunderbird < 68.8.0.