Out-of-bounds Read Affecting mozilla package, versions [,52.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378340
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 Jun 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Jun 2018

CVE-2017-5418  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 52.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. An out of bounds read error occurs when parsing some HTTP digest authorization responses, resulting in information leakage through the reading of random memory containing matches to specifically set patterns. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 52 and Thunderbird < 52.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1