CVE-2023-6873
First published: Tue Dec 19 2023(Updated: )
Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 120. 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 < 121.
Credit: security@mozilla.org security@mozilla.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Mozilla Firefox | <121 | 121 |
| Mozilla Firefox | <121.0 | |
| Debian Debian Linux | =10.0 | |
| Debian Debian Linux | =11.0 | |
| Debian Debian Linux | =12.0 | |
| ubuntu/firefox | <121.0+ | 121.0+ |
| debian/firefox | 125.0.3-1 | |
| debian/thunderbird | <=1:91.12.0-1~deb10u1 | 1:115.10.1-1~deb10u1 1:115.7.0-1~deb11u1 1:115.10.1-1~deb11u1 1:115.7.0-1~deb12u1 1:115.10.1-1~deb12u1 |
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Reference Links
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1855327%2C1862089%2C1862723
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-56/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5582
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00021.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-10
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2023-6873
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2023-56/
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2023-56/#CVE-2023-6873
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-6873
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2023-55/#CVE-2023-6873
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6562-1
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-6873
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-6873
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-6873
Peer vulnerabilities
(Found alongside the following vulnerabilities)
- agent/author
- agent/type
- agent/first-publish-date
- collector/mitre-cve
- source/MITRE
- collector/launchpad-cve
- source/Launchpad
- agent/weakness
- agent/severity
- agent/references
- agent/description
- collector/epss-latest
- source/FIRST
- agent/epss
- agent/last-modified-date
- collector/mozilla-advisory
- source/Mozilla
- agent/software-canonical-lookup
- agent/software-canonical-lookup-request
- collector/nvd-api
- source/NVD
- collector/nvd-cve
- agent/tags
- agent/event
- collector/security-tracker-debian
- source/Debian
- agent/softwarecombine
- collector/usn-cve
- source/Ubuntu
- vendor/mozilla
- canonical/mozilla firefox
- vendor/debian
- canonical/debian debian linux
- version/debian debian linux/10.0
- version/debian debian linux/11.0
- version/debian debian linux/12.0
- package-manager/debian
- package-manager/ubuntu