Mozilla Firefox up to 115.23.1 memory corruption

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Mozilla Firefox. This issue affects some unknown processing. Such manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2023-4057. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox (Web Browser). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 115, Firefox ESR 115.0, and Thunderbird 115.0. 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 < 116 and Firefox ESR < 115.1.

The weakness was shared 08/01/2023. The advisory is shared for download at mozilla.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2023-4057 since 08/01/2023. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $5k-$25k (estimation calculated on 06/20/2025).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 239763 (TencentOS Server 4: thunderbird (TSSA-2024:0450)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 116 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at mozilla.org.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (239763). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

Productinfo

Type

• Web Browser

Vendor

• Mozilla

Name

• Firefox

Version

• 0.2
• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.5
• 0.6
• 0.7
• 0.7.1
• 0.7.2
• 0.7.3
• 0.8
• 0.9
• 0.9.1
• 0.9.2
• 0.9.2.1
• 0.9.3
• 0.9.4
• 0.9.4.1
• 0.9.5
• 0.9.6
• 0.9.7
• 0.9.8
• 0.9.9
• 0.9.35
• 0.9.48
• 0.10
• 0.10.1
• 1.0
• 1.0.1
• 1.0.2
• 1.0.3
• 1.0.4
• 1.0.5
• 1.0.6
• 1.0.7
• 1.0.8
• 1.0.9
• 1.1
• 1.1.8
• 1.2
• 1.2.1
• 1.3
• 1.3.1
• 1.4
• 1.4.1
• 1.4.2
• 1.4.4
• 1.5
• 1.5.0.1
• 1.5.0.2
• 1.5.0.3
• 1.5.0.4
• 1.5.0.5
• 1.5.0.6
• 1.5.0.7
• 1.5.0.8
• 1.5.0.9
• 1.5.0.10
• 1.5.0.11
• 1.5.0.12
• 1.5.0.14
• 1.5.1
• 1.5.2
• 1.5.3
• 1.5.4
• 1.5.5
• 1.5.6
• 1.5.7
• 1.5.8
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.7.1
• 1.7.2
• 1.7.3
• 1.8
• 2
• 2.0
• 2.0 .4
• 2.0 8
• 2.0.0.1
• 2.0.0.2
• 2.0.0.3
• 2.0.0.4
• 2.0.0.5
• 2.0.0.6
• 2.0.0.7
• 2.0.0.8
• 2.0.0.9
• 2.0.0.10
• 2.0.0.11
• 2.0.0.12
• 2.0.0.13
• 2.0.0.14
• 2.0.0.15
• 2.0.0.16
• 2.0.0.17
• 2.0.0.18
• 2.0.0.19
• 2.0.0.20
• 2.0.1
• 2.0.4
• 2.0.5
• 2.0.6
• 2.0.7
• 2.0.9
• 2.0.10
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.5
• 3
• 3.0
• 3.0.1
• 3.0.2
• 3.0.3
• 3.0.4
• 3.0.5
• 3.0.6
• 3.0.7
• 3.0.8
• 3.0.9
• 3.0.10
• 3.0.11
• 3.0.12
• 3.0.13
• 3.0.14
• 3.0.15
• 3.0.16
• 3.0.17
• 3.0.19
• 3.0beta5
• 3.1
• 3.5
• 3.5.1
• 3.5.2
• 3.5.3
• 3.5.4
• 3.5.5
• 3.5.6
• 3.5.7
• 3.5.8
• 3.5.9
• 3.5.10
• 3.5.11
• 3.5.12
• 3.5.13
• 3.5.14
• 3.5.15
• 3.5.16
• 3.5.17
• 3.5.18
• 3.5.19
• 3.6
• 3.6.1
• 3.6.2
• 3.6.3
• 3.6.4
• 3.6.6
• 3.6.7
• 3.6.8
• 3.6.9
• 3.6.10
• 3.6.11
• 3.6.12
• 3.6.13
• 3.6.14
• 3.6.15
• 3.6.16
• 3.6.17
• 3.6.18
• 3.6.19
• 3.6.20
• 3.6.21
• 3.6.22
• 3.6.26
• 3.6.28
• 3.7
• 3.11.5
• 4.0
• 4.0.1
• 5.0
• 5.0.1
• 6.0
• 6.0.1
• 6.0.2
• 7.0
• 7.0.1
• 8.0
• 8.0 for Mac
• 8.0.1
• 8.1
• 8.2
• 9.0
• 9.0.1
• 9.1
• 10.0
• 10.0.1
• 10.0.2
• 10.0.3
• 10.0.4
• 10.0.5
• 10.0.7
• 10.1
• 10.2
• 11.0
• 12.0
• 13.0
• 14
• 14.0.1
• 15
• 15.0.1 (downgrade)
• 15.0a1
• 16
• 16.0.1
• 16.0.2
• 17.0
• 17.0.1
• 17.0.2
• 17.0.3
• 17.0.4
• 17.0.5
• 17.0.6
• 18.0
• 19.0
• 19.0.1
• 19.0.2
• 20.0
• 20.0.1
• 21.0
• 22.0
• 23.0
• 23.0.1
• 24.0
• 24.0.1
• 24.0.2
• 24.1.0
• 24.1.1
• 24.2
• 24.3
• 24.4
• 24.5
• 24.7
• 25
• 25.0
• 25.0.1
• 26
• 26.0
• 27
• 27.0
• 28
• 28.0
• 28.0.1
• 29.0
• 29.0.1
• 30.0
• 31
• 31.0
• 31.1.0
• 31.1.1
• 31.2
• 31.3.0
• 32.0
• 33
• 33.0
• 34
• 34.0
• 34.0.5
• 35
• 36
• 36.0.3
• 36.0.4
• 37
• 37.0
• 37.0.1
• 37.0.2
• 38
• 38.0
• 39
• 39.0
• 39.0.3
• 40
• 40.0.3
• 41
• 41.0
• 41.0.1
• 42
• 43
• 43.0
• 44
• 44.0.2
• 45
• 45.0
• 45.6
• 47.0
• 48
• 49
• 49.0
• 49.0.2
• 50
• 50.0.1
• 50.0.2
• 50.1
• 51
• 51.0.3
• 52
• 52.6
• 52.8
• 53
• 54.0
• 55
• 56
• 57
• 57.0.1
• 58.0
• 58.0.1
• 59
• 59.0.1
• 60
• 60.0
• 60.0.2
• 61
• 62.0
• 62.0.3
• 63.0
• 64
• 64.0
• 65
• 65.0.0
• 65.0.1
• 66
• 66.0
• 67
• 67.0
• 67.0.2
• 67.0.3
• 67.0.4
• 68.0
• 68.0.2
• 68.7
• 68.11
• 68.12
• 69.0
• 69.0.1
• 70
• 70.0
• 71
• 71.0
• 72
• 72.0
• 74.0
• 74.0.0
• 74.0.1
• 75.0
• 76
• 76.0
• 77
• 77.0
• 78.0
• 78.4
• 78.7
• 78.10.1
• 80.0
• 81.0
• 82
• 82.0
• 83.0
• 84.0
• 85.0
• 86.0
• 87.0
• 88.0
• 89.0
• 89.0.1
• 90.0
• 91.0
• 91.0.1
• 91.7
• 91.8
• 92.0
• 93.0
• 94.0
• 95.0
• 96
• 97
• 98
• 99
• 100
• 101
• 102
• 102.2
• 102.6
• 103
• 104
• 105
• 106
• 107
• 108
• 109
• 110
• 110.1
• 111
• 112
• 113
• 114
• 115
• 115.0.2
• 115.6
• 115.9
• 115.23
• 115.23.1

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.mozilla.org/
• Product: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

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