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MFSA2023-44 Firefox: Security Vulnerability fixed in Firefox 118.0.1, Firefox ESR 115.3.1, Firefox for Android 118.1.0, Firefox Focus for Android 118.1.0, and Thunderbird 115.3.1. (CVE-2023-5217)

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MFSA2023-44 Firefox: Security Vulnerability fixed in Firefox 118.0.1, Firefox ESR 115.3.1, Firefox for Android 118.1.0, Firefox Focus for Android 118.1.0, and Thunderbird 115.3.1. (CVE-2023-5217)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/28/2023
Created
09/30/2023
Added
09/29/2023
Modified
10/03/2023

Description

Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx in Google Chrome prior to 117.0.5938.132 and libvpx 1.13.1 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-esr-upgrade-115_3_1
  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-118_0_1

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