Out-of-Bounds Affecting mozilla package, versions [,41.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
18.92% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2377444
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 Sept 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Sep 2015

CVE-2015-4506  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 41.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. Buffer overflow in the vp9_init_context_buffers function in libvpx, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted VP9 file.

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