Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-5171 - Use After Free vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH 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.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1851599
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-41/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-43/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-42/
- 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/[email protected]/message/AY642Z6JZODQJE7Z62CFREVUHEGCXGPD/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00015.html