CVE-2023-5169
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2023-09-26 | |
| Impact: | Important | What is this? |
Description
A compromised content process could have provided malicious data in a `PathRecording` resulting in an out-of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exploitable crash in a privileged process. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and Thunderbird < 115.3.
See more information about CVE-2023-5169 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v3 metrics
| Base Score: | 6.5 |
| Vector String: | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Version: | 3.0 |
| Attack Vector: | Network |
| Attack Complexity: | Low |
| Privileges Required: | None |
| User Interaction: | Required |
| Scope: | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | High |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (firefox) | ELSA-2023-5477 | 2023-10-13 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (thunderbird) | ELSA-2023-5475 | 2023-10-13 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (firefox) | ELSA-2023-5433 | 2023-10-06 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (thunderbird) | ELSA-2023-5428 | 2023-10-06 |
| Oracle Linux version 9 (firefox) | ELSA-2023-5434 | 2023-10-05 |
| Oracle Linux version 9 (thunderbird) | ELSA-2023-5435 | 2023-10-05 |
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