CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-5169
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-09-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
A compromised content process could have provided malicious data in a `PathRecording` resulting in an out-of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exploitable crash in a privileged process. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and Thunderbird < 115.3.
Affected configurations
• mozilla firefox (< 118)
• mozilla firefox esr (< 115.3)
• mozilla thunderbird (< 115.3)
• debian debian linux 10.0
• debian debian linux 11.0
• debian debian linux 12.0
• fedoraproject fedora 39
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1846685 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00034.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00015.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/AY642Z6JZODQJE7Z62CFREVUHEGCXGPD/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5506 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5513 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-41/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-42/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-43/ Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1846685 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00034.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00015.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/AY642Z6JZODQJE7Z62CFREVUHEGCXGPD/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5506 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5513 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-41/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-42/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-43/ Vendor Advisory