Out-of-Bounds Affecting mozilla package, versions [,45.6.0)(45.6.0,50.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.48% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378661
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 Jun 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Jun 2018

CVE-2016-9893  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 45.6.0, 50.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. Memory safety bugs were reported in Thunderbird 45.5. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort that some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.1, Firefox ESR < 45.6, and Thunderbird < 45.6.

CVSS Scores

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