Memory Safety Bugs in Mozilla Firefox < 112 Allowing Arbitrary Execution
CVE-2023-29551 Published on June 2, 2023
Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 111. 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 for Android < 112, Firefox < 112, and Focus for Android < 112.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2023-29551 can be exploited with network access, requires user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Type
What is a Memory Corruption Vulnerability?
The software writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Typically, this can result in corruption of data, a crash, or code execution. The software may modify an index or perform pointer arithmetic that references a memory location that is outside of the boundaries of the buffer. A subsequent write operation then produces undefined or unexpected results.
CVE-2023-29551 has been classified to as a Memory Corruption vulnerability or weakness.
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Affected Versions
Mozilla Firefox for Android:- Version unspecified and below 112 is affected.
- Version unspecified and below 112 is affected.
- Version unspecified and below 112 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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