Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting mozilla package, versions [,47.0.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.43% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2379337
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed5 Aug 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Aug 2016

CVE-2016-5261  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 47.0.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound. Integer overflow in the WebSocketChannel class in the WebSockets subsystem in Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR < 45.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via crafted packets that trigger incorrect buffer-resize operations during buffering.

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