CVE-2023-5171
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Sep 27, 2023
- Updated
- Feb 13, 2025
- Reserved
- Sep 25, 2023
Description
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
FirefoxMozilla |
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Firefox ESRMozilla |
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ThunderbirdMozilla |
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References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1851599
- 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://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5506
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00034.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5513
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AY642Z6JZODQJE7Z62CFREVUHEGCXGPD/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00015.html
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