Improper Input Validation Affecting mozilla package, versions [,3.5.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
2.13% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2379317
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed4 Aug 2009
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 Aug 2009

CVE-2009-2470  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 3.5.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.12, and 3.5.x before 3.5.2, allows remote SOCKS5 proxy servers to cause a denial of service (data stream corruption) via a long domain name in a reply.

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