Access Restriction Bypass Affecting mozilla package, versions [0.8,1.5.0.6]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
96.02% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2377687
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed21 Aug 2006
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Aug 2006

CVE-2006-4253  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for mozilla.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. Concurrency vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via multiple Javascript timed events that load a deeply nested XML file, followed by redirecting the browser to another page, which leads to a concurrency failure that causes structures to be freed incorrectly, as demonstrated by (1) ffoxdie and (2) ffoxdie3. NOTE: it has been reported that Netscape 8.1 and K-Meleon 1.0.1 are also affected by ffoxdie. Mozilla confirmed to CVE that ffoxdie and ffoxdie3 trigger the same underlying vulnerability. NOTE: it was later reported that Firefox 2.0 RC2 and 1.5.0.7 are also affected.

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