Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting mozilla package, versions [,31.2][31.2,33.0.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
6.61% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378995
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 Dec 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Dec 2014

CVE-2014-1592  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 33.0.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsHtml5TreeOperation function in xul.dll in Mozilla Firefox before 34.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.3, Thunderbird before 31.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.31 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by adding a second root element to an HTML5 document during parsing.

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