Use After Free Affecting mozilla package, versions [24.0,24.5)(24.5,29.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.72% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378928
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed30 Apr 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Apr 2014

CVE-2014-1532  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 24.5, 29.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsHostResolver::ConditionallyRefreshRecord function in libxul.so in Mozilla Firefox before 29.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.5, Thunderbird before 24.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.26 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via vectors related to host resolution.

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