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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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: 2025-08-20T15:18:57.429Z
Reserved: 2025-08-19T15:55:37.418Z
Link: CVE-2025-9179

Updated: 2025-08-20T14:06:17.281Z

Status : Undergoing Analysis
Published: 2025-08-19T21:15:30.247
Modified: 2025-08-20T16:15:46.523
Link: CVE-2025-9179

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