Buffer overflow in Mozilla products - CVE-2023-29551
Published: April 11, 2023
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
Firefox for Android
Firefox Focus for Android
Gentoo Linux
Ubuntu
openEuler
www-client/firefox
firefox (Ubuntu package)
firefox
firefox-debuginfo
firefox-debugsource
How to mitigate CVE-2023-29551
Firefox for Android - update to 112.0
Firefox Focus for Android - update to 112.0
www-client/firefox - update to 104
firefox (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 112.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 112.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1, 112.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 112.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1, 112.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 112.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
firefox - update to 140.4.0-2
firefox-debuginfo - update to 140.4.0-2
firefox-debugsource - update to 140.4.0-2