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CVE-2023-4582

Published: 11 September 2023

Due to large allocation checks in Angle for glsl shaders being too lenient a buffer overflow could have occured when allocating too much private shader memory on mac OS. *This bug only affects Firefox on macOS. Other operating systems are unaffected.* This vulnerability affects Firefox < 117, Firefox ESR < 115.2, and Thunderbird < 115.2.

Notes

AuthorNote
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

Negligible

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
firefox
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Ignored
(end of standard support)
focal Not vulnerable
(only affects macOS)
jammy Not vulnerable
(only affects macOS)
lunar Not vulnerable
(only affects macOS)
trusty Ignored
(end of standard support)
upstream Needs triage

xenial Ignored
(end of standard support)
mozjs102
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

focal Does not exist

jammy Not vulnerable
(only affects macOS)
lunar Not vulnerable
(only affects macOS)
trusty Does not exist

upstream Ignored
(only affects macOS)
xenial Does not exist

mozjs38
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Not vulnerable
(only affects macOS)
focal Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

lunar Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Ignored
(only affects macOS)
xenial Does not exist

mozjs52
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Not vulnerable
(only affects macOS)
focal Not vulnerable
(only affects macOS)
jammy Does not exist

lunar Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Ignored
(only affects macOS)
xenial Does not exist

mozjs68
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

focal Not vulnerable
(only affects macOS)
jammy Does not exist

lunar Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Ignored
(only affects macOS)
xenial Does not exist

mozjs78
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

focal Does not exist

jammy Not vulnerable
(only affects macOS)
lunar Not vulnerable
(only affects macOS)
trusty Does not exist

upstream Ignored
(only affects macOS)
xenial Does not exist

mozjs91
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

focal Does not exist

jammy Not vulnerable
(only affects macOS)
lunar Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Ignored
(only affects macOS)
xenial Does not exist

thunderbird
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Ignored
(end of standard support)
focal Not vulnerable
(only affects macOS)
jammy Not vulnerable
(only affects macOS)
lunar Not vulnerable
(only affects macOS)
trusty Ignored
(end of standard support)
upstream Ignored
(only affects macOS)
xenial Ignored
(end of standard support)

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