Use After Free Affecting Firefox package, versions [,95)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (38th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FIREFOX-3182898
  • published25 Dec 2022
  • disclosed25 Dec 2022
  • creditAtila Butkovits

Introduced: 25 Dec 2022

CVE-2021-4128  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Firefox to version 95 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. When transitioning in and out of fullscreen mode, a graphics object was not correctly protected; resulting in memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash.

Note This bug only affects Firefox on MacOS.

CVSS Scores

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