Use After Free Affecting Firefox-ESR package, versions [,115.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (55th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FIREFOXESR-6133215
  • published20 Dec 2023
  • disclosed19 Dec 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Dec 2023

CVE-2023-6862  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Firefox-ESR to version 115.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free due to improper handling of memory in the nsDNSService::Init during start-up. An attacker can exploit this weakness by inducing a scenario where previously freed memory is accessed, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution or crashing the application. This is only exploitable if the attacker can manipulate the timing of memory allocation and deallocation during the application's start-up sequence.

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