Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2023-35

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 102.15

Announced
August 29, 2023
Impact
high
Products
Firefox ESR
Fixed in
  • Firefox ESR 102.15

#CVE-2023-4573: Memory corruption in IPC CanvasTranslator

Reporter
sonakkbi
Impact
high
Description

When receiving rendering data over IPC mStream could have been destroyed when initialized, which could have led to a use-after-free causing a potentially exploitable crash.

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#CVE-2023-4574: Memory corruption in IPC ColorPickerShownCallback

Reporter
sonakkbi
Impact
high
Description

When creating a callback over IPC for showing the Color Picker window, multiple of the same callbacks could have been created at a time and eventually all simultaneously destroyed as soon as one of the callbacks finished. This could have led to a use-after-free causing a potentially exploitable crash.

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#CVE-2023-4575: Memory corruption in IPC FilePickerShownCallback

Reporter
sonakkbi
Impact
high
Description

When creating a callback over IPC for showing the File Picker window, multiple of the same callbacks could have been created at a time and eventually all simultaneously destroyed as soon as one of the callbacks finished. This could have led to a use-after-free causing a potentially exploitable crash.

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#CVE-2023-4576: Integer Overflow in RecordedSourceSurfaceCreation

Reporter
fffvr
Impact
high
Description

On Windows, an integer overflow could occur in RecordedSourceSurfaceCreation which resulted in a heap buffer overflow potentially leaking sensitive data that could have led to a sandbox escape.
This bug only affects Firefox on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.

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#CVE-2023-4581: XLL file extensions were downloadable without warnings

Reporter
Umar Farooq (@Puf)
Impact
moderate
Description

Excel .xll add-in files did not have a blocklist entry in Firefox's executable blocklist which allowed them to be downloaded without any warning of their potential harm.

References

#CVE-2023-4584: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 117, Firefox ESR 102.15, Firefox ESR 115.2, Thunderbird 102.15, and Thunderbird 115.2

Reporter
Randell Jesup, Andrew McCreight, the Mozilla Fuzzing Team
Impact
high
Description

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 116, Firefox ESR 102.14, Firefox ESR 115.1, Thunderbird 102.14, and Thunderbird 115.1. 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.

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