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.
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Mon, 23 Sep 2024 20:30:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2023-09-27T14:13:12.642Z

Updated: 2024-09-23T19:24:55.774Z

Reserved: 2023-09-25T15:03:42.289Z

Link: CVE-2023-5171

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:52:07.557Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2023-09-27T15:19:42.227

Modified: 2023-10-12T02:52:09.820

Link: CVE-2023-5171

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2023-09-26T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-5171 - Bugzilla