Use After Free Affecting mozilla package, versions [,68.9.0)(68.9.0,77.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.32% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2379362
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Jul 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Jul 2020

CVE-2020-12405  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 68.9.0, 77.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. When browsing a malicious page, a race condition in our SharedWorkerService could occur and lead to a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.9.0, Firefox < 77, and Firefox ESR < 68.9.

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