Use After Free Affecting mozilla package, versions [,10.0.11)(10.0.11,17.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.62% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2377856
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed21 Nov 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Nov 2012

CVE-2012-4217  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 10.0.11, 17.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsViewManager::ProcessPendingUpdates function in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Thunderbird before 17.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.

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