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CVE-2023-5171

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.

Published

2023-09-27T15:19:42.227

Last Modified

2024-11-21T08:41:13.673

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 6.5 (MEDIUM)

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-416

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	mozilla	firefox	< 118	Yes
Application	mozilla	firefox_esr	< 115.3	Yes
Application	mozilla	thunderbird	< 115.3	Yes
Operating System	debian	debian_linux	10.0	Yes
Operating System	debian	debian_linux	11.0	Yes
Operating System	debian	debian_linux	12.0	Yes
Operating System	fedoraproject	fedora	39	Yes

References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1851599 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required ([email protected])
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00034.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00015.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/AY642Z6JZODQJE7Z62CFREVUHEGCXGPD/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5506 Patch, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5513 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-41/ Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-42/ Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-43/ Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1851599 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00034.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00015.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/AY642Z6JZODQJE7Z62CFREVUHEGCXGPD/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5506 Patch, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5513 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-41/ Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-42/ Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-43/ Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)