Use After Free Affecting mozilla package, versions [,45.9.0)(45.9.0,52.1.0)(52.1.0,53.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.01% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2379235
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 Jun 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Jun 2018

CVE-2017-5460  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 45.9.0, 52.1.0, 53.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. A use-after-free vulnerability in frame selection triggered by a combination of malicious script content and key presses by a user. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR < 45.9, Firefox ESR < 52.1, and Firefox < 53.

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