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Mozilla Firefox Regex Replace Function Memory Leak Vulnerability

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Mozilla Firefox Regex Replace Function Memory Leak Vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
05/02/2005
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/28/2005
Modified
05/23/2019

Description

Certain versions of Mozilla Firefox contain a flawed implementation of the Javascript "lambda" regex string replacement function. As a result, a malicious web page can silently submit parts of the browser's memory contents back to the server.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-1_0_3
  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-latest

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