Buffer overflow in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2023-34417

 

Buffer overflow in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2023-34417

Published: June 6, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU77005
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-2023-34417
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
Gentoo Linux
Ubuntu
openEuler
www-client/firefox
firefox (Ubuntu package)
firefox
firefox-debuginfo
firefox-debugsource

How to mitigate CVE-2023-34417

Install updates from vendor's website.

Mozilla Firefox - update to 114.0
www-client/firefox - update to 104
firefox (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 114.0+build3-0ubuntu0.20.04.1, 114.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1, 114.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
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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