Denial of Service (DoS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package mozilla  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378477
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Mar 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Mar 2016

CVE-2016-1964  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). Use-after-free vulnerability in the AtomicBaseIncDec function in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) by leveraging mishandling of XML transformations.

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