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MFSA2023-42 Firefox: Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 115.3 (CVE-2023-5168)

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MFSA2023-42 Firefox: Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 115.3 (CVE-2023-5168)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/26/2023
Created
09/28/2023
Added
09/27/2023
Modified
10/12/2023

Description

A compromised content process could have provided malicious data to `FilterNodeD2D1` resulting in an out-of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exploitable crash in a privileged process. *This bug only affects Firefox on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.* This vulnerability affects Firefox < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and Thunderbird < 115.3.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-esr-upgrade-115_3

References

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