Use After Free Affecting MozillaFirefox-translations-common package, versions <115.3.0-150000.150.107.1


Severity

Recommended
critical

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.12% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-MOZILLAFIREFOXTRANSLATIONSCOMMON-5926268
  • published30 Sept 2023
  • disclosed29 Sept 2023

Introduced: 29 Sep 2023

CVE-2023-5171  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 MozillaFirefox-translations-common to version 115.3.0-150000.150.107.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream MozillaFirefox-translations-common package and not the MozillaFirefox-translations-common package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1