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Red Hat: CVE-2023-6205: Mozilla: Use-after-free in MessagePort::Entangled (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2023-6205: Mozilla: Use-after-free in MessagePort::Entangled (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/21/2023
Created
11/29/2023
Added
11/28/2023
Modified
12/15/2023

Description

It was possible to cause the use of a MessagePort after it had already been freed, which could potentially have led to an exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 120, Firefox ESR < 115.5.0, and Thunderbird < 115.5.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-firefox
  • redhat-upgrade-firefox-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-firefox-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-firefox-x11
  • redhat-upgrade-thunderbird
  • redhat-upgrade-thunderbird-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-thunderbird-debugsource

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