Use After Free Affecting mozilla package, versions [,60.2.0)(60.2.0,60.2.1)(60.2.1,62.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.53% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2377299
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed18 Oct 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-12378  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 60.2.0, 60.2.1, 62.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. A use-after-free vulnerability can occur when an IndexedDB index is deleted while still in use by JavaScript code that is providing payload values to be stored. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 62, Firefox ESR < 60.2, and Thunderbird < 60.2.1.

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