CVE-2023-4573 — Use After Free in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-416 — Use After Free15 documents8 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 59.20%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla Firefox ESRMozilla Thunderbird
Timeline
PublishedSep 11
Latest updateSep 14

Description

When receiving rendering data over IPC `mStream` could have been destroyed when initialized, which could have led to a use-after-free causing a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 117, Firefox ESR < 102.15, Firefox ESR < 115.2, Thunderbird < 102.15, and Thunderbird < 115.2.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages9 packages

▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 117
▶NVDmozilla/firefox115.0 — 115.2+1
▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefox_esrunspecified — 102.15+1
▶NVDmozilla/firefox_esr< 102.15
▶Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 117.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

🔴Vulnerability Details

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OSV
thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2023-09-14
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CVEList
Memory corruption in IPC CanvasTranslator↗2023-09-11
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GHSA
GHSA-vfg8-wvhv-f2g4: When receiving rendering data over IPC `mStream` could have been destroyed when initialized, which could have led to a use-after-free causing a potent↗2023-09-11
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OSV
CVE-2023-4573: When receiving rendering data over IPC `mStream` could have been destroyed when initialized, which could have led to a use-after-free causing a potent↗2023-09-11
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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2023-08-30
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2023-09-14
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2023-08-30
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Red Hat
Mozilla: Memory corruption in IPC CanvasTranslator↗2023-08-29
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Debian
CVE-2023-4573: firefox - When receiving rendering data over IPC `mStream` could have been destroyed when ...↗2023
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Mozilla
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2023-34: CVE-2023-4573↗
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