medium6.5
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 potent…
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Mozilla | Firefox | before 118 |
| Mozilla | Firefox Esr | before 115.3 |
| Mozilla | Thunderbird | before 115.3 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | Versions 10.0, 11.0, 12.0 |
| Fedoraproject | Fedora | Version 39 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1851599
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00034.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00015.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AY642Z6JZODQJE7Z62CFREVUHEGCXGPD/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5506
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5513
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-41/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-42/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-43/
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1851599
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00034.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00015.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AY642Z6JZODQJE7Z62CFREVUHEGCXGPD/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5506
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5513
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-41/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-42/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-43/