Buffer overflow in Mozilla products - CVE-2023-29551

 

Buffer overflow in Mozilla products - CVE-2023-29551

Published: April 11, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU74841
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-2023-29551
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
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

Install updates from vendor's website.

Mozilla Firefox - update to 112.0
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

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