UBUNTU-CVE-2023-5171

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UBUNTU-CVE-2023-5171

Summary:

Details: 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.

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-5171, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2023-41/#CVE-2023-5171, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2023-42/#CVE-2023-5171, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2023-43/#CVE-2023-5171, 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://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6404-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6405-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5171