Out-of-Bounds Affecting mozilla package, versions [,38.5.1][38.5.1,43.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.89% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2379446
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Feb 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Feb 2016

CVE-2016-1521  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 43.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. The directrun function in directmachine.cpp in Libgraphite in Graphite 2 1.2.4, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.6.1, does not validate a certain skip operation, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, obtain sensitive information, or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted Graphite smart font.

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