Out-of-bounds Write Affecting mozilla package, versions [,68.5.0)(68.5.0,73.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.58% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378590
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed2 Mar 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Mar 2020

CVE-2020-6800  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 68.5.0, 73.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 72 and Firefox ESR 68.4. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. In general, these flaws cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird product because scripting is disabled when reading mail, but are potentially risks in browser or browser-like contexts. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.5, Firefox < 73, and Firefox < ESR68.5.

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