Reliance on undefined behavior in Mozilla products - CVE-2023-6863

 

Reliance on undefined behavior in Mozilla products - CVE-2023-6863

Published: December 19, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU84566
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-6863
CWE-ID: CWE-758
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Mozilla
Affected software:
Mozilla Firefox
Firefox ESR
Firefox for Android

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack.

The vulnerability exists due to reliance on undefined behavior in ShutdownObserver(). A remote attacker can crash the browser.


How to mitigate CVE-2023-6863

Install updates from vendor's website.

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