Information Exposure Affecting mozilla package, versions [,3.5.19)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.51% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2379413
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed15 Apr 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Apr 2011

CVE-2011-1712  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 3.5.19 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. The txXPathNodeUtils::getXSLTId function in txMozillaXPathTreeWalker.cpp and txStandaloneXPathTreeWalker.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.19, 3.6.x before 3.6.17, and 4.x before 4.0.1, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.14, allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information about heap memory addresses via an XML document containing a call to the XSLT generate-id XPath function.

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