CVE detail
CVE-2023-5171
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.
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Buzz score components · mention 6.9 · diversity 5.0 · KEV 0.0 · OTX 0.0 · PoC 0.0
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Evidence
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Firefox 118 patches six high-severity vulnerabilities, including a memory leak potentially leading to sandbox escape.
newswww.securityweek.comSep 27, 2023, 12:58 PM
Exploit code
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