Out-of-Bounds Affecting mozilla package, versions [,45.8.0)(45.8.0,52.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.94% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378322
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 Jun 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Jun 2018

CVE-2017-5400  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 45.8.0, 52.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. JIT-spray targeting asm.js combined with a heap spray allows for a bypass of ASLR and DEP protections leading to potential memory corruption attacks. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 52, Firefox ESR < 45.8, Thunderbird < 52, and Thunderbird < 45.8.

CVSS Scores

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