CVE-2023-6212

high

Published 2023-11-27 · Modified 2023-11-27

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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

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 119, Firefox ESR 115.4, and Thunderbird 115.4. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 120, Firefox ESR < 115.5.0, and Thunderbird < 115.5.

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-115.5.0-1.el9_3.alma.ppc64le.rpm`

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`115.5.0esr-1`
sid	Fixed	`120.0-1`
forky	Fixed	`115.5.0esr-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`115.5.0esr-1~deb11u1`
bookworm	Fixed	`115.5.0esr-1~deb12u1`

Red Hat Fixed 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	—
8	Fixed	—

Rocky Linux Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
8	Fixed	—

References

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

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