CVE-2025-5272 — Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 138 and Thunderbird 138.

Description

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 138 and Thunderbird 138. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 139 and Thunderbird 139.

References

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1726254%2C1742738%2C1960121
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-42/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-45/