cve-2023-5171
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-09-27 14:13
Modified
2024-09-23 19:24
Severity ?
Summary
During Ion compilation, a Garbage Collection could have resulted in a use-after-free condition, allowing an attacker to write two NUL bytes, and cause a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and Thunderbird < 115.3.
References
security@mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1851599Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
security@mozilla.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00034.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00015.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AY642Z6JZODQJE7Z62CFREVUHEGCXGPD/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5506Patch, Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5513Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-41/Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-42/Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-43/Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1851599Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00034.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00015.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AY642Z6JZODQJE7Z62CFREVUHEGCXGPD/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5506Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5513Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-41/Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-42/Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-43/Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Mozilla Firefox ESR Version: unspecified   < 115.3
Mozilla Thunderbird Version: unspecified   < 115.3
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