Resource Management Errors Affecting mozilla package, versions [2.0,2.0.0.18)[3.0,3.0.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
19.65% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2379314
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Nov 2008
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Nov 2008

CVE-2008-5018  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 2.0.0.18, 3.0.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. The JavaScript engine in Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.4, Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.18, Thunderbird 2.x before 2.0.0.18, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to "insufficient class checking" in the Date class.

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