Name | CVE-2023-4583 |
Description | When checking if the Browsing Context had been discarded in `HttpBaseChannel`, if the load group was not available then it was assumed to have already been discarded which was not always the case for private channels after the private session had ended. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 117, Firefox ESR < 115.2, and Thunderbird < 115.2. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
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firefox (PTS) | sid | 132.0.2-1 | fixed |
firefox-esr (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 68.9.0esr-1~deb8u2 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 91.11.0esr-1~deb9u1 | vulnerable |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 115.12.0esr-1~deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 115.14.0esr-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 128.4.0esr-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 128.3.1esr-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 128.4.0esr-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 128.4.0esr-1 | fixed |
thunderbird (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1:68.9.0-1~deb8u2 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 1:91.10.0-1~deb9u1 | vulnerable |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 1:115.12.0-1~deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1:115.12.0-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 1:128.4.3esr-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1:115.16.0esr-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 1:128.4.3esr-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1:128.4.3esr-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[bookworm] - firefox-esr <not-affected> (ESR 102 not affected)
[bullseye] - firefox-esr <not-affected> (ESR 102 not affected)
[buster] - firefox-esr <not-affected> (ESR 102 not affected)
[bookworm] - thunderbird <not-affected> (ESR 102 not affected)
[bullseye] - thunderbird <not-affected> (ESR 102 not affected)
[buster] - thunderbird <not-affected> (ESR 102 not affected)
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2023-34/#CVE-2023-4583
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2023-36/#CVE-2023-4583
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2023-38/#CVE-2023-4583