Out-of-Bounds Affecting mozilla package, versions [,38.6.0][38.6.0,45.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.7% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378883
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Mar 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Mar 2016

CVE-2016-1974  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 45.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. The nsScannerString::AppendUnicodeTo function in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7 does not verify that memory allocation succeeds, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via crafted Unicode data in an HTML, XML, or SVG document.

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