Out-of-Bounds Affecting mozilla package, versions [,14.0.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
12.37% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2379428
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 Aug 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Aug 2012

CVE-2012-3966  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 14.0.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, Thunderbird before 15.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, and SeaMonkey before 2.12 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a negative height value in a BMP image within a .ICO file, related to (1) improper handling of the transparency bitmask by the nsICODecoder component and (2) improper processing of the alpha channel by the nsBMPDecoder component.

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