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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-4582: Classic Buffer Overflow

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-4582: Classic Buffer Overflow

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
09/11/2023
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

Description

Due to large allocation checks in Angle for glsl shaders being too lenient a buffer overflow could have occured when allocating too much private shader memory on mac OS. *This bug only affects Firefox on macOS. Other operating systems are unaffected.* This vulnerability affects Firefox < 117, Firefox ESR < 115.2, and Thunderbird < 115.2.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-firefox-esr

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