Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting mozilla package, versions [,41.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
22.4% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378339
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 Sept 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Sep 2015

CVE-2015-4509  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 41.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. Use-after-free vulnerability in the HTMLVideoElement interface in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted JavaScript code that modifies the URI table of a media element, aka ZDI-CAN-3176.

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