Use After Free Affecting MozillaThunderbird-translations-common package, versions <102.4.0-150200.8.85.1


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (55th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-MOZILLATHUNDERBIRDTRANSLATIONSCOMMON-3090779
  • published28 Oct 2022
  • disclosed27 Oct 2022

Introduced: 27 Oct 2022

CVE-2022-40960  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 MozillaThunderbird-translations-common to version 102.4.0-150200.8.85.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream MozillaThunderbird-translations-common package and not the MozillaThunderbird-translations-common package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.4 relevant fixed versions and status.

Concurrent use of the URL parser with non-UTF-8 data was not thread-safe. This could lead to a use-after-free causing a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 102.3, Thunderbird < 102.3, and Firefox < 105.

CVSS Scores

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