PT-2023-6799 · Mozilla+9 · Firefox+11

Sonakkbi

·

Published

2023-09-26

·

Updated

2025-03-14

·

CVE-2023-5169

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

VectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Firefox versions prior to 118 Firefox ESR versions prior to 115.3 Thunderbird versions prior to 115.3
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. The issue is related to a buffer overflow vulnerability.
Recommendations For Firefox versions prior to 118, update to version 118 or later to resolve the issue. For Firefox ESR versions prior to 115.3, update to version 115.3 or later to resolve the issue. For Thunderbird versions prior to 115.3, update to version 115.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Memory Corruption

Found an issue in the description? Have something to add? Feel free to write us 👾

Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

ALSA-2023:5434
ALSA-2023:5435
ALT-PU-2023-5908
ALT-PU-2023-5991
ALT-PU-2023-6200
ALT-PU-2023-6436
ALT-PU-2024-13898
ALT-PU-2024-14035
ALT-PU-2024-3614
ALT-PU-2024-3860
ALT-PU-2024-4241
ALT-PU-2024-4748
BDU:2023-07665
CESA-2023_5428
CESA-2023_5433
CVE-2023-5169
DLA-3587-1
DLA-3601-1
DSA-5506-1
DSA-5513-1
MGASA-2023-0285
OESA-2025-1265
OESA-2025-1268
OPENSUSE-SU-2023_3898-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2023_4016-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:13268-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:13272-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:13288-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1
RHSA-2023:5426
RHSA-2023:5427
RHSA-2023:5428
RHSA-2023:5429
RHSA-2023:5430
RHSA-2023:5432
RHSA-2023:5433
RHSA-2023:5434
RHSA-2023:5435
RHSA-2023:5436
RHSA-2023:5437
RHSA-2023:5438
RHSA-2023:5439
RHSA-2023:5440
RHSA-2023:5475
RHSA-2023:5477
RHSA-2023_5428
RHSA-2023_5433
RHSA-2023_5434
RHSA-2023_5435
RHSA-2023_5475
RHSA-2023_5477
RLSA-2023:5428
RLSA-2023:5435
ROSA-SA-2024-2371
SUSE-SU-2023:3837-1
SUSE-SU-2023:3898-1
SUSE-SU-2023:3899-1
SUSE-SU-2023:4016-1
USN-6404-1
USN-6404-2
USN-6405-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux
Almalinux
Astra Linux
Centos
Firefox
Firefox Esr
Linuxmint
Red Hat
Red Os
Suse
Thunderbird
Ubuntu