Use After Free Affecting mozilla package, versions [,68.6.0)(68.6.0,74.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.62% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2379220
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed25 Mar 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Mar 2020

CVE-2020-6805  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 68.6.0, 74.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. When removing data about an origin whose tab was recently closed, a use-after-free could occur in the Quota manager, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.6, Firefox < 74, Firefox < ESR68.6, and Firefox ESR < 68.6.

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