Out-of-Bounds Affecting mozilla package, versions [,40.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.06% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2377583
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed16 Aug 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Aug 2015

CVE-2015-4482  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 40.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds mar_read.c in the Updater in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a crafted name of a Mozilla Archive (aka MAR) file.

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