Out-of-bounds Read Affecting mozilla package, versions [,49.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.84% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378179
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed22 Sept 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Sep 2016

CVE-2016-2827  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 49.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. The mozilla::net::IsValidReferrerPolicy function in Mozilla Firefox before 49.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a Content Security Policy (CSP) referrer directive with zero values.

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