Out-of-Bounds Affecting mozilla package, versions [,68.10.0)(68.10.0,78.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.44% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378807
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Jul 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Jul 2020

CVE-2020-12417  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 68.10.0, 78.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. Due to confusion about ValueTags on JavaScript Objects, an object may pass through the type barrier, resulting in memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. Note: this issue only affects Firefox on ARM64 platforms. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 68.10, Firefox < 78, and Thunderbird < 68.10.0.

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