Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting mozilla package, versions [,23.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.57% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378521
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed7 Aug 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Aug 2013

CVE-2013-1708  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 23.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). Mozilla Firefox before 23.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.20 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted WAV file that is not properly handled by the nsCString::CharAt function.

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