Use After Free Affecting mozilla package, versions [,68.10)(68.10,68.10.0)(68.10.0,78.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.52% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2377540
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Jul 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Jul 2020

CVE-2020-12419  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 68.10, 68.10.0, 78.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. When processing callbacks that occurred during window flushing in the parent process, the associated window may die; causing a use-after-free condition. This could have led to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 68.10, Firefox < 78, and Thunderbird < 68.10.0.

CVSS Scores

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