Use After Free Affecting mozilla package, versions [,67.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (64th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2377694
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Jul 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Jul 2019

CVE-2019-9821  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 67.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. A use-after-free vulnerability can occur in AssertWorkerThread due to a race condition with shared workers. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 67.

CVSS Scores

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