Use After Free Affecting mozilla package, versions [,40.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.41% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378066
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed16 Aug 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Aug 2015

CVE-2015-4488  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 40.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. Use-after-free vulnerability in the StyleAnimationValue class in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0, Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2, and Firefox OS before 2.2 allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact by leveraging a StyleAnimationValue::operator self assignment.

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