Buffer overflow in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox for Android - CVE-2023-28177

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Buffer overflow in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox for Android - CVE-2023-28177

Published: March 14, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU73681
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-28177
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted website, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


Affected software

Mozilla Firefox
Firefox for Android
Gentoo Linux
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12
SUSE CaaS Platform
SUSE Manager Server
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server
SUSE Manager Proxy
SUSE Enterprise Storage
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar
SUSE OpenStack Cloud
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 BCL
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 ESPOS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS
Desktop Applications Module
openSUSE Leap
Ubuntu
openEuler
MozillaFirefox-debuginfo
MozillaFirefox-debugsource
MozillaFirefox
MozillaFirefox-devel
MozillaFirefox-translations-common
MozillaFirefox-translations-other
MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream
www-client/firefox
firefox (Ubuntu package)
firefox
firefox-debuginfo
firefox-debugsource

How to mitigate CVE-2023-28177

Install updates from vendor's website.

Mozilla Firefox - update to 111.0
Firefox for Android - update to 111.0
MozillaFirefox-debuginfo - addressed in versions 102.9.0-112.153.1, 102.9.0-150000.150.79.1, 102.9.0-150200.152.81.1
MozillaFirefox-debugsource - addressed in versions 102.9.0-112.153.1, 102.9.0-150000.150.79.1, 102.9.0-150200.152.81.1
MozillaFirefox - addressed in versions 102.9.0-112.153.1, 102.9.0-150000.150.79.1, 102.9.0-150200.152.81.1
MozillaFirefox-devel - addressed in versions 102.9.0-112.153.1, 102.9.0-150000.150.79.1, 102.9.0-150200.152.81.1
MozillaFirefox-translations-common - addressed in versions 102.9.0-112.153.1, 102.9.0-150000.150.79.1, 102.9.0-150200.152.81.1
MozillaFirefox-translations-other - addressed in versions 102.9.0-150000.150.79.1, 102.9.0-150200.152.81.1
MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream - update to 102.9.0-150200.152.81.1
www-client/firefox - update to 104
firefox (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 111.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 111.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1, 111.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 111.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
firefox - update to 128.8.0-1
firefox-debuginfo - update to 128.8.0-1
firefox-debugsource - update to 128.8.0-1

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