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CVE-2023-25739

Publication date 15 February 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8 · High

Score breakdown

Module load requests that failed were not being checked as to whether or not they were cancelled causing a use-after-free in <code>ScriptLoadContext</code>. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 110, Thunderbird < 102.8, and Firefox ESR < 102.8.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
firefox 24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Not affected
23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 110.0+build3-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 110.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored
mozjs102 24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Not affected
23.04 lunar
Fixed 102.11.0-0ubuntu0.23.04.1
22.10 kinetic
Fixed 102.11.0-0ubuntu0.22.10.1
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 102.11.0-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
mozjs38 22.10 kinetic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic Ignored
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
mozjs52 22.10 kinetic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Ignored
18.04 LTS bionic Ignored
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
mozjs68 22.10 kinetic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Ignored
18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
mozjs78 24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
23.04 lunar Ignored
22.10 kinetic Ignored
22.04 LTS jammy Ignored
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
mozjs91 22.10 kinetic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Ignored
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
thunderbird 24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Not affected
23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic
Fixed 1:102.8.0+build2-0ubuntu0.22.10.1
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 1:102.8.0+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 1:102.8.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 1:102.8.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored

Notes

tyhicks

mozjs contains a copy of the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine

mdeslaur

starting with Ubuntu 22.04, the firefox package is just a script that installs the Firefox snap

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 8.8 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-5880-1
    • Firefox vulnerabilities
    • 20 February 2023
    • USN-5943-1
    • Thunderbird vulnerabilities
    • 13 March 2023
    • USN-6120-1
    • SpiderMonkey vulnerabilities
    • 30 May 2023

Other references