Out-of-Bounds Affecting mozilla package, versions [,45.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2377750
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Mar 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Mar 2016

CVE-2016-1963  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 45.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. The FileReader class in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) by changing a file during a FileReader API read operation.

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