Race Condition Affecting mozilla package, versions [,68.4)(68.4,72.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.66% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378701
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed8 Jan 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Jan 2020

CVE-2019-17021  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 68.4, 72.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition. During the initialization of a new content process, a race condition occurs that can allow a content process to disclose heap addresses from the parent process. Note: this issue only occurs on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 68.4 and Firefox < 72.

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