An attacker was able to perform memory corruption in the GMP process which processes encrypted media. This process is also heavily sandboxed, but represents slightly different privileges from the content process. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 142, Firefox ESR < 115.27, Firefox ESR < 128.14, Firefox ESR < 140.2, Thunderbird < 142, Thunderbird < 128.14, and Thunderbird < 140.2.
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Mon, 03 Nov 2025 19:30:00 +0000
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Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:00:00 +0000
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| Title | thunderbird: firefox: Sandbox escape due to invalid pointer in the Audio/Video: GMP component | Sandbox escape due to invalid pointer in the Audio/Video: GMP component |
Fri, 22 Aug 2025 00:15:00 +0000
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| Title | thunderbird: firefox: Sandbox escape due to invalid pointer in the Audio/Video: GMP component | |
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Thu, 21 Aug 2025 18:45:00 +0000
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| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:esr:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:esr:*:*:* |
Thu, 21 Aug 2025 12:45:00 +0000
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Mozilla firefox Mozilla firefox Esr Mozilla thunderbird |
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:15:00 +0000
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| Weaknesses | CWE-119 | |
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Tue, 19 Aug 2025 20:45:00 +0000
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| Description | An attacker was able to perform memory corruption in the GMP process which processes encrypted media. This process is also heavily sandboxed, but represents slightly different privileges from the content process. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 142, Firefox ESR < 115.27, Firefox ESR < 128.14, Firefox ESR < 140.2, Thunderbird < 142, Thunderbird < 128.14, and Thunderbird < 140.2. | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mozilla
Published: 2025-08-19T20:33:53.949Z
Updated: 2025-11-03T18:14:10.275Z
Reserved: 2025-08-19T15:55:37.418Z
Link: CVE-2025-9179
Updated: 2025-11-03T18:14:10.275Z
Status : Modified
Published: 2025-08-19T21:15:30.247
Modified: 2025-11-03T19:16:16.563
Link: CVE-2025-9179