Use After Free Affecting mozilla package, versions [,31.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
30.24% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2379412
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Sept 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Sep 2014

CVE-2014-1563  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 31.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. Use-after-free vulnerability in the mozilla::DOMSVGLength::GetTearOff function in Mozilla Firefox before 32.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.1, and Thunderbird 31.x before 31.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via an SVG animation with DOM interaction that triggers incorrect cycle collection.

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