If Windows failed to duplicate a handle during process creation, the sandbox code may have inadvertently freed a pointer twice, resulting in a use-after-free and a potentially exploitable crash. *This bug only affects Firefox on Windows when run in non-standard configurations (such as using `runas`). Other operating systems are unaffected.* This vulnerability affects Firefox < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and Thunderbird < 115.3.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - If Windows failed to duplicate a handle during process creation, the sandbox code may have inadvertently     freed a pointer twice, resulting in a use-after-free and a potentially exploitable crash. *This bug only     affects Firefox on Windows when run in non-standard configurations (such as using `runas`). Other     operating systems are unaffected.* This vulnerability affects Firefox < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and     Thunderbird < 115.3. (CVE-2023-5174)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-a0ac4fe21c advisory.

    - Updated to latest upstream (118.0)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:4016-1 advisory.

  - A compromised content process could have provided malicious data to `FilterNodeD2D1` resulting in an out-     of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exploitable crash in a privileged process. This vulnerability     affects Firefox < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and Thunderbird < 115.3. (CVE-2023-5168)

  - A compromised content process could have provided malicious data in a `PathRecording` resulting in an out-     of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exploitable crash in a privileged process. This vulnerability     affects Firefox < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and Thunderbird < 115.3. (CVE-2023-5169)

  - During Ion compilation, a Garbage Collection could have resulted in a use-after-free condition, allowing     an attacker to write two NUL bytes, and cause a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects     Firefox < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and Thunderbird < 115.3. (CVE-2023-5171)

  - If Windows failed to duplicate a handle during process creation, the sandbox code may have inadvertently     freed a pointer twice, resulting in a use-after-free and a potentially exploitable crash. *This bug only     affects Firefox on Windows when run in non-standard configurations (such as using `runas`). Other     operating systems are unaffected.* This vulnerability affects Firefox < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and     Thunderbird < 115.3. (CVE-2023-5174)

  - Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 117, Firefox ESR 115.2, and Thunderbird 115.2. 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 < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and     Thunderbird < 115.3. (CVE-2023-5176)

  - Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx in Google Chrome prior to 117.0.5938.132 and libvpx 1.13.1     allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium     security severity: High) (CVE-2023-5217)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-7a4026e363 advisory.

    - Updated to latest upstream (118.0)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3899-1 advisory.

  - A compromised content process could have provided malicious data to `FilterNodeD2D1` resulting in an out-     of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exploitable crash in a privileged process. This vulnerability     affects Firefox < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and Thunderbird < 115.3. (CVE-2023-5168)

  - A compromised content process could have provided malicious data in a `PathRecording` resulting in an out-     of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exploitable crash in a privileged process. This vulnerability     affects Firefox < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and Thunderbird < 115.3. (CVE-2023-5169)

  - During Ion compilation, a Garbage Collection could have resulted in a use-after-free condition, allowing     an attacker to write two NUL bytes, and cause a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects     Firefox < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and Thunderbird < 115.3. (CVE-2023-5171)

  - If Windows failed to duplicate a handle during process creation, the sandbox code may have inadvertently     freed a pointer twice, resulting in a use-after-free and a potentially exploitable crash. *This bug only     affects Firefox on Windows when run in non-standard configurations (such as using `runas`). Other     operating systems are unaffected.* This vulnerability affects Firefox < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and     Thunderbird < 115.3. (CVE-2023-5174)

  - Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 117, Firefox ESR 115.2, and Thunderbird 115.2. 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 < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and     Thunderbird < 115.3. (CVE-2023-5176)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3898-1 advisory.

  - A compromised content process could have provided malicious data to `FilterNodeD2D1` resulting in an out-     of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exploitable crash in a privileged process. This vulnerability     affects Firefox < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and Thunderbird < 115.3. (CVE-2023-5168)

  - A compromised content process could have provided malicious data in a `PathRecording` resulting in an out-     of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exploitable crash in a privileged process. This vulnerability     affects Firefox < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and Thunderbird < 115.3. (CVE-2023-5169)

  - During Ion compilation, a Garbage Collection could have resulted in a use-after-free condition, allowing     an attacker to write two NUL bytes, and cause a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects     Firefox < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and Thunderbird < 115.3. (CVE-2023-5171)

  - If Windows failed to duplicate a handle during process creation, the sandbox code may have inadvertently     freed a pointer twice, resulting in a use-after-free and a potentially exploitable crash. *This bug only     affects Firefox on Windows when run in non-standard configurations (such as using `runas`). Other     operating systems are unaffected.* This vulnerability affects Firefox < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and     Thunderbird < 115.3. (CVE-2023-5174)

  - Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 117, Firefox ESR 115.2, and Thunderbird 115.2. 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 < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and     Thunderbird < 115.3. (CVE-2023-5176)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3837-1 advisory.

  - A compromised content process could have provided malicious data to `FilterNodeD2D1` resulting in an out-     of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exploitable crash in a privileged process. This vulnerability     affects Firefox < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and Thunderbird < 115.3. (CVE-2023-5168)

  - A compromised content process could have provided malicious data in a `PathRecording` resulting in an out-     of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exploitable crash in a privileged process. This vulnerability     affects Firefox < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and Thunderbird < 115.3. (CVE-2023-5169)

  - During Ion compilation, a Garbage Collection could have resulted in a use-after-free condition, allowing     an attacker to write two NUL bytes, and cause a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects     Firefox < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and Thunderbird < 115.3. (CVE-2023-5171)

  - If Windows failed to duplicate a handle during process creation, the sandbox code may have inadvertently     freed a pointer twice, resulting in a use-after-free and a potentially exploitable crash. *This bug only     affects Firefox on Windows when run in non-standard configurations (such as using `runas`). Other     operating systems are unaffected.* This vulnerability affects Firefox < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and     Thunderbird < 115.3. (CVE-2023-5174)

  - Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 117, Firefox ESR 115.2, and Thunderbird 115.2. 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 < 118, Firefox ESR < 115.3, and     Thunderbird < 115.3. (CVE-2023-5176)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-587dc80bb1 advisory.

    - Updated to latest upstream (118.0)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of mozilla-firefox installed on the remote host is prior to 115.3.0esr. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SSA:2023-269-01 advisory.

  - A compromised content process could have provided malicious data to <code>FilterNodeD2D1</code> resulting     in an out-of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exploitable crash in a privileged process.
    (CVE-2023-5168)

  - A compromised content process could have provided malicious data in a <code>PathRecording</code> resulting     in an out-of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exploitable crash in a privileged process.
    (CVE-2023-5169)

  - During Ion compilation, a Garbage Collection could have resulted in a use-after-free condition, allowing     an attacker to write two NUL bytes, and cause a potentially exploitable crash.  (CVE-2023-5171)

  - If Windows failed to duplicate a handle during process creation, the sandbox code may have inadvertently     freed a pointer twice, resulting in a use-after-free and a potentially exploitable crash. This bug only     affects Firefox on Windows when run in non-standard configurations (such as using <code>runas</code>).
    Other operating systems are unaffected.  (CVE-2023-5174)

  - Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 117, Firefox ESR 115.2, and Thunderbird 115.2. 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.  (CVE-2023-5176)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Thunderbird installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 115.3. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2023-43 advisory.

  - A compromised content process could have provided malicious data to <code>FilterNodeD2D1</code> resulting     in an out-of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exploitable crash in a privileged process.
    (CVE-2023-5168)

  - A compromised content process could have provided malicious data in a <code>PathRecording</code> resulting     in an out-of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exploitable crash in a privileged process.
    (CVE-2023-5169)

  - During Ion compilation, a Garbage Collection could have resulted in a use-after-free condition, allowing     an attacker to write two NUL bytes, and cause a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2023-5171)

  - If Windows failed to duplicate a handle during process creation, the sandbox code may have inadvertently     freed a pointer twice, resulting in a use-after-free and a potentially exploitable crash. This bug only     affects Firefox on Windows when run in non-standard configurations (such as using <code>runas</code>).
    Other operating systems are unaffected. (CVE-2023-5174)

  - Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 117, Firefox ESR 115.2, and Thunderbird 115.2. 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. (CVE-2023-5176)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Thunderbird installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 115.3. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2023-43 advisory.

  - A compromised content process could have provided malicious data to <code>FilterNodeD2D1</code> resulting     in an out-of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exploitable crash in a privileged process.
    (CVE-2023-5168)

  - A compromised content process could have provided malicious data in a <code>PathRecording</code> resulting     in an out-of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exploitable crash in a privileged process.
    (CVE-2023-5169)

  - During Ion compilation, a Garbage Collection could have resulted in a use-after-free condition, allowing     an attacker to write two NUL bytes, and cause a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2023-5171)

  - If Windows failed to duplicate a handle during process creation, the sandbox code may have inadvertently     freed a pointer twice, resulting in a use-after-free and a potentially exploitable crash. This bug only     affects Firefox on Windows when run in non-standard configurations (such as using <code>runas</code>).
    Other operating systems are unaffected. (CVE-2023-5174)

  - Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 117, Firefox ESR 115.2, and Thunderbird 115.2. 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. (CVE-2023-5176)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Firefox ESR installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 115.3. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2023-42 advisory.

  - A compromised content process could have provided malicious data to <code>FilterNodeD2D1</code> resulting     in an out-of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exploitable crash in a privileged process.
    (CVE-2023-5168)

  - A compromised content process could have provided malicious data in a <code>PathRecording</code> resulting     in an out-of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exploitable crash in a privileged process.
    (CVE-2023-5169)

  - During Ion compilation, a Garbage Collection could have resulted in a use-after-free condition, allowing     an attacker to write two NUL bytes, and cause a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2023-5171)

  - If Windows failed to duplicate a handle during process creation, the sandbox code may have inadvertently     freed a pointer twice, resulting in a use-after-free and a potentially exploitable crash. This bug only     affects Firefox on Windows when run in non-standard configurations (such as using <code>runas</code>).
    Other operating systems are unaffected. (CVE-2023-5174)

  - Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 117, Firefox ESR 115.2, and Thunderbird 115.2. 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. (CVE-2023-5176)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Firefox ESR installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 115.3. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2023-42 advisory.

  - A compromised content process could have provided malicious data to <code>FilterNodeD2D1</code> resulting     in an out-of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exploitable crash in a privileged process.
    (CVE-2023-5168)

  - A compromised content process could have provided malicious data in a <code>PathRecording</code> resulting     in an out-of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exploitable crash in a privileged process.
    (CVE-2023-5169)

  - During Ion compilation, a Garbage Collection could have resulted in a use-after-free condition, allowing     an attacker to write two NUL bytes, and cause a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2023-5171)

  - If Windows failed to duplicate a handle during process creation, the sandbox code may have inadvertently     freed a pointer twice, resulting in a use-after-free and a potentially exploitable crash. This bug only     affects Firefox on Windows when run in non-standard configurations (such as using <code>runas</code>).
    Other operating systems are unaffected. (CVE-2023-5174)

  - Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 117, Firefox ESR 115.2, and Thunderbird 115.2. 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. (CVE-2023-5176)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Firefox installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 118.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2023-41 advisory.

  - A compromised content process could have provided malicious data to <code>FilterNodeD2D1</code> resulting     in an out-of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exploitable crash in a privileged process.
    (CVE-2023-5168)

  - A compromised content process could have provided malicious data in a <code>PathRecording</code> resulting     in an out-of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exploitable crash in a privileged process.
    (CVE-2023-5169)

  - In canvas rendering, a compromised content process could have caused a surface to change unexpectedly,     leading to a memory leak of a privileged process. This memory leak could be used to effect a sandbox     escape if the correct data was leaked. (CVE-2023-5170)

  - During Ion compilation, a Garbage Collection could have resulted in a use-after-free condition, allowing     an attacker to write two NUL bytes, and cause a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2023-5171)

  - A hashtable  in the Ion Engine could have been mutated while there was a live interior reference, leading     to a potential use-after-free and exploitable crash. (CVE-2023-5172)

  - In a non-standard configuration of Firefox, an integer overflow could have occurred based on network     traffic (possibly under influence of a local unprivileged webpage), leading to an out-of-bounds write to     privileged process memory.  This bug only affects Firefox if a non-standard preference allowing non-HTTPS     Alternate Services (<code>network.http.altsvc.oe</code>) is enabled. (CVE-2023-5173)

  - If Windows failed to duplicate a handle during process creation, the sandbox code may have inadvertently     freed a pointer twice, resulting in a use-after-free and a potentially exploitable crash. This bug only     affects Firefox on Windows when run in non-standard configurations (such as using <code>runas</code>).
    Other operating systems are unaffected. (CVE-2023-5174)

  - During process shutdown, it was possible that an <code>ImageBitmap</code> was created that would later be     used after being freed from a different codepath, leading to a potentially exploitable crash.
    (CVE-2023-5175)

  - Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 117, Firefox ESR 115.2, and Thunderbird 115.2. 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. (CVE-2023-5176)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Firefox installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 118.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2023-41 advisory.

  - A compromised content process could have provided malicious data to <code>FilterNodeD2D1</code> resulting     in an out-of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exploitable crash in a privileged process.
    (CVE-2023-5168)

  - A compromised content process could have provided malicious data in a <code>PathRecording</code> resulting     in an out-of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exploitable crash in a privileged process.
    (CVE-2023-5169)

  - In canvas rendering, a compromised content process could have caused a surface to change unexpectedly,     leading to a memory leak of a privileged process. This memory leak could be used to effect a sandbox     escape if the correct data was leaked. (CVE-2023-5170)

  - During Ion compilation, a Garbage Collection could have resulted in a use-after-free condition, allowing     an attacker to write two NUL bytes, and cause a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2023-5171)

  - A hashtable  in the Ion Engine could have been mutated while there was a live interior reference, leading     to a potential use-after-free and exploitable crash. (CVE-2023-5172)

  - In a non-standard configuration of Firefox, an integer overflow could have occurred based on network     traffic (possibly under influence of a local unprivileged webpage), leading to an out-of-bounds write to     privileged process memory.  This bug only affects Firefox if a non-standard preference allowing non-HTTPS     Alternate Services (<code>network.http.altsvc.oe</code>) is enabled. (CVE-2023-5173)

  - If Windows failed to duplicate a handle during process creation, the sandbox code may have inadvertently     freed a pointer twice, resulting in a use-after-free and a potentially exploitable crash. This bug only     affects Firefox on Windows when run in non-standard configurations (such as using <code>runas</code>).
    Other operating systems are unaffected. (CVE-2023-5174)

  - During process shutdown, it was possible that an <code>ImageBitmap</code> was created that would later be     used after being freed from a different codepath, leading to a potentially exploitable crash.
    (CVE-2023-5175)

  - Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 117, Firefox ESR 115.2, and Thunderbird 115.2. 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. (CVE-2023-5176)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
250244	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-5174	Nessus	Misc.	critical
190759	GLSA-202402-25 : Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical
185203	Fedora 39 : firefox (2023-a0ac4fe21c)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
182798	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : MozillaThunderbird (SUSE-SU-2023:4016-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
182395	Fedora 37 : firefox (2023-7a4026e363)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
182389	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SU-2023:3899-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
182387	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SU-2023:3898-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
182120	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SU-2023:3837-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
182082	Fedora 38 : firefox (2023-587dc80bb1)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
181901	Slackware Linux 15.0 / current mozilla-firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities (SSA:2023-269-01)	Nessus	Slackware Local Security Checks	critical
181882	Mozilla Thunderbird < 115.3	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	critical
181881	Mozilla Thunderbird < 115.3	Nessus	Windows	critical
181878	Mozilla Firefox ESR < 115.3	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	critical
181877	Mozilla Firefox ESR < 115.3	Nessus	Windows	critical
181876	Mozilla Firefox < 118.0	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	critical
181875	Mozilla Firefox < 118.0	Nessus	Windows	critical

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