CVE-2023-37212
Published: 5 July 2023
Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 114. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 115.
Notes
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
| tyhicks | mozjs contains a copy of the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine |
| mdeslaur | starting with Ubuntu 22.04, the firefox package is just a script that installs the Firefox snap |
Priority
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
|
firefox Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
trusty |
Ignored
(end of standard support)
|
| xenial |
Ignored
(end of standard support)
|
|
| bionic |
Ignored
(end of standard support)
|
|
| jammy |
Not vulnerable
(code not present)
|
|
| kinetic |
Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
|
|
| lunar |
Not vulnerable
(code not present)
|
|
| upstream |
Released
(115.0-1)
|
|
| focal |
Released
(115.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.3)
|
|
|
thunderbird Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
trusty |
Ignored
(end of standard support)
|
| xenial |
Ignored
(end of standard support)
|
|
| bionic |
Ignored
(end of standard support)
|
|
| focal |
Not vulnerable
|
|
| jammy |
Not vulnerable
|
|
| kinetic |
Ignored
(end of life, was needed)
|
|
| lunar |
Not vulnerable
|
|
| upstream |
Needs triage
|
Severity score breakdown
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Base score | 8.8 |
| Attack vector | Network |
| Attack complexity | Low |
| Privileges required | None |
| User interaction | Required |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | High |
| Integrity impact | High |
| Availability impact | High |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-37212
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2023-22/#CVE-2023-37212
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-22/
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1750870%2C1825552%2C1826206%2C1827076%2C1828690%2C1833503%2C1835710%2C1838587
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6201-1
- NVD
- Launchpad
- Debian