CVE-2023-5171

high

Published 2023-10-04 · Modified 2023-10-04

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.0

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

AlmaLinux Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	`thunderbird-115.3.1-1.el9_2.alma.x86_64.rpm`

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`115.3.0esr-1`
sid	Fixed	`118.0-1`
forky	Fixed	`115.3.0esr-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`115.3.0esr-1~deb11u1`
bookworm	Fixed	`115.3.0esr-1~deb12u1`

Red Hat Fixed 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	—
8	Fixed	—

Rocky Linux Fixed 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	—
8	Fixed	—

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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