Use After Free Affecting mozilla package, versions [,90.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.54% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2379182
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed5 Aug 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Aug 2021

CVE-2021-29972  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 90.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. A use-after-free vulnerability was found via testing, and traced to an out-of-date Cairo library. Updating the library resolved the issue, and may have remediated other, unknown security vulnerabilities as well. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 90.

CVSS Scores

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