CVE-2023-5171

Name
CVE-2023-5171
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.
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
MISC https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1851599
MISC https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-41/
MISC https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-43/
MISC https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-42/
MISC https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5506
MISC https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00034.html
MISC https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5513
MISC https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AY642Z6JZODQJE7Z62CFREVUHEGCXGPD/
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00015.html

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* firefox >= None < 118
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* thunderbird >= None < 115.3
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* firefox_esr >= None < 115.3

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status