CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-5175

Use After Free

Published: Sep 27, 2023 | Modified: May 01, 2025
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

During process shutdown, it was possible that an ImageBitmap was created that would later be used after being freed from a different codepath, leading to a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 118.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Firefox Mozilla * 118 (excluding)
Firefox Ubuntu bionic *
Firefox Ubuntu focal *
Firefox Ubuntu lunar *
Firefox Ubuntu trusty *
Firefox Ubuntu upstream *
Firefox Ubuntu xenial *
Mozjs102 Ubuntu devel *
Mozjs102 Ubuntu esm-apps/noble *
Mozjs102 Ubuntu jammy *
Mozjs102 Ubuntu lunar *
Mozjs102 Ubuntu mantic *
Mozjs102 Ubuntu noble *
Mozjs102 Ubuntu upstream *
Mozjs38 Ubuntu bionic *
Mozjs38 Ubuntu esm-apps/bionic *
Mozjs38 Ubuntu upstream *
Mozjs52 Ubuntu bionic *
Mozjs52 Ubuntu esm-apps/focal *
Mozjs52 Ubuntu esm-infra/bionic *
Mozjs52 Ubuntu focal *
Mozjs52 Ubuntu upstream *
Mozjs68 Ubuntu esm-infra/focal *
Mozjs68 Ubuntu focal *
Mozjs68 Ubuntu upstream *
Mozjs78 Ubuntu esm-apps/jammy *
Mozjs78 Ubuntu jammy *
Mozjs78 Ubuntu lunar *
Mozjs78 Ubuntu upstream *
Mozjs91 Ubuntu jammy *
Mozjs91 Ubuntu upstream *
Thunderbird Ubuntu bionic *
Thunderbird Ubuntu lunar *
Thunderbird Ubuntu trusty *
Thunderbird Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References