Use After Free Affecting mozilla package, versions [52.4.0,56.0]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.08% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378170
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 Jun 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Jun 2018

CVE-2017-7805  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for mozilla.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. During TLS 1.2 exchanges, handshake hashes are generated which point to a message buffer. This saved data is used for later messages but in some cases, the handshake transcript can exceed the space available in the current buffer, causing the allocation of a new buffer. This leaves a pointer pointing to the old, freed buffer, resulting in a use-after-free when handshake hashes are then calculated afterwards. This can result in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 56, Firefox ESR < 52.4, and Thunderbird < 52.4.

CVSS Scores

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