CVE-2023-28162

Public on 2023-03-15

Modified on 2024-02-07

Description

This issue affects Firefox and Thunderbird ESR 102.8 and earlier. The Mozilla Foundation describes this issue as follows:

While implementing AudioWorklets, some code may have casted one type to another, invalid, dynamic type. This could have led to a potentially exploitable crash.

Severity

Medium

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CVSS v3 Base Score

6.1

See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform	Package	Release Date	Advisory
Amazon Linux 2 - Firefox Extra	firefox	2023-08-21 21:01	ALAS2FIREFOX-2023-004
Amazon Linux 2 - Core	thunderbird	2023-03-17 16:34	ALAS2-2023-1988

CVSS Scores

	Score Type	Score	Vector
Amazon Linux	CVSSv3	6.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD	CVSSv3	8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Red Hat: CVE-2023-28162 Mitre: CVE-2023-28162 FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity