Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting mozilla package, versions [1.5,1.5.0.9)[2.0,2.0.0.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.57% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378251
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed20 Dec 2006
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Dec 2006

CVE-2006-6499  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 1.5.0.9, 2.0.0.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The js_dtoa function in Mozilla Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.1, 1.5.x before 1.5.0.9, Thunderbird before 1.5.0.9, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.7 overwrites memory instead of exiting when the floating point precision is reduced, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via any plugins that reduce the precision.

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