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(CVE-2023-25738)

Vulnerability from cleanstart – Published: 2026-10-30 18:42 – Updated: 2024-10-10 16:17 – Source website

Summary

Details

Security vulnerability affects the firefox-esr package. Members of the DEVMODEW struct set by the printer device driver weren't being validated and could have resulted in invalid values which in turn would cause the browser to attempt out of bounds access to related variables.

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

URL

Type

	https://github.com/cleanstart-dev/cleanstart-secu…	ADVISORY
	https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-25738	WEB
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-25738	WEB

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CVE-2023-25738 (GCVE-0-2023-25738)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-06-02 00:00 – Updated: 2025-01-09 20:08

Summary

Members of the <code>DEVMODEW</code> struct set by the printer device driver weren't being validated and could have resulted in invalid values which in turn would cause the browser to attempt out of bounds access to related variables.<br>*This bug only affects Firefox on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 110, Thunderbird < 102.8, and Firefox ESR < 102.8.

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-01-09 20:08 UTC

CWE

Printing on Windows could potentially crash Firefox with some device drivers
CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds Read

Assigner

mozilla CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 38/100 over 683 records in the last 180 days details

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2…
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2…
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2…
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1811852

Impacted products

3 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Mozilla	Firefox	Affected: unspecified , < 110 (custom)
Mozilla	Thunderbird	Affected: unspecified , < 102.8 (custom)
Mozilla	Firefox ESR	Affected: unspecified , < 102.8 (custom)

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