Resource Management Errors Affecting mozilla package, versions [,3.0.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.3% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2379211
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed18 Sept 2009
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Sep 2009

CVE-2008-7244  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 3.0.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser hang) by calling the window.print function in a loop, aka a "printing DoS attack," possibly a related issue to CVE-2009-0821.

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