FKIE_CVE-2025-9179

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-08-19 21:15 - Updated: 2026-04-13 15:17
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
An attacker was able to perform memory corruption in the GMP process which processes encrypted media. This process is also heavily sandboxed, but represents slightly different privileges from the content process. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 142, Firefox ESR 115.27, Firefox ESR 128.14, Firefox ESR 140.2, Thunderbird 142, Thunderbird 128.14, and Thunderbird 140.2.
References
security@mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1979527Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-64/Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-65/Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-66/Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-67/Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-70/Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-71/Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-72/Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/08/msg00016.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/08/msg00018.html
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mozilla firefox *
mozilla firefox *
mozilla firefox *
mozilla firefox *
mozilla thunderbird *
mozilla thunderbird *
mozilla thunderbird *
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