CVE-2023-6862

CVE-2023-6862: vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox ESR

Published 19 Dec 2023 · Updated 13 Feb 2025

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3Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 1.0%

A use-after-free was identified in the `nsDNSService::Init`. This issue appears to manifest rarely during start-up. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 115.6 and Thunderbird < 115.6.

Affected products

Mozilla · Firefox ESR Mozilla · Thunderbird

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References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1868042 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00020.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00021.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-10 https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5581 https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5582 https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-54/https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-55/