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Debian: CVE-2023-5171: firefox-esr, thunderbird -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2023-5171: firefox-esr, thunderbird -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/27/2023
Created
10/03/2023
Added
10/02/2023
Modified
10/04/2023

Description

During Ion compilation, a Garbage Collection could have resulted in a use-after-free condition, allowing an attacker to write two NUL bytes, and cause a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and Thunderbird < 115.3.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-firefox-esr
  • debian-upgrade-thunderbird

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