Out-of-Bounds Affecting mozilla package, versions [,42.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
5.48% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2368862
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed5 Nov 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Nov 2015

CVE-2015-7183  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-189  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 42.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. Integer overflow in the PL_ARENA_ALLOCATE implementation in Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.19.2.1 and 3.20.x before 3.20.1, as used in Firefox before 42.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.4 and other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via unspecified vectors.

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