Use After Free Affecting mozilla package, versions [,68.12)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.3% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2377984
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed1 Oct 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Oct 2020

CVE-2020-15669  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 68.12 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. When aborting an operation, such as a fetch, an abort signal may be deleted while alerting the objects to be notified. This results in a use-after-free and we presume that with enough effort it could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 68.12 and Thunderbird < 68.12.

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