Out-of-bounds Write Affecting mozilla package, versions [,68.7.0)(68.7.0,75.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.36% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378827
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 Apr 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Apr 2020

CVE-2020-6822  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 68.7.0, 75.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. On 32-bit builds, an out of bounds write could have occurred when processing an image larger than 4 GB in GMPDecodeData. It is possible that with enough effort this could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.7.0, Firefox ESR < 68.7, and Firefox < 75.

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