Out-of-Bounds Affecting mozilla package, versions [,2.0.0.17)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
84.99% (99th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378114
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 Sept 2008
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Sep 2008

CVE-2008-0016  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 2.0.0.17 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. Stack-based buffer overflow in the URL parsing implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.17 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.12 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted UTF-8 URL in a link.

CVSS Scores

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