Use After Free Affecting mozilla package, versions [,78.12)(78.12,90.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.39% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2377907
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed5 Aug 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Aug 2021

CVE-2021-29970  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 78.12, 90.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. A malicious webpage could have triggered a use-after-free, memory corruption, and a potentially exploitable crash. This bug could only be triggered when accessibility was enabled.. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.12, Firefox ESR < 78.12, and Firefox < 90.

CVSS Scores

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