CVE-2023-6873
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-12-19 13:38
Modified
2024-08-02 08:42
Severity
Summary
Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 120. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 121.
References
SourceURLTags
security@mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1855327%2C1862089%2C1862723Broken Link, Issue Tracking
security@mozilla.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00021.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-10Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5582Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-56/Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
VendorProduct
MozillaFirefox
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