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CVE-2025-1933
NixOS vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

CVE-2025-1933 is a high-impact vulnerability discovered in Mozilla's JavaScript Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler affecting the handling of WebAssembly (WASM) i32 return values on 64-bit CPUs. The vulnerability was disclosed on March 4, 2025, and affects multiple Mozilla products including Firefox < 136, Firefox ESR < 115.21, Firefox ESR < 128.8, Thunderbird < 136, and Thunderbird < 128.8 (Mozilla Advisory).

Technical details

The vulnerability occurs when the JIT compiler processes WASM i32 return values on 64-bit CPU architectures. The technical issue involves leftover memory bits being picked up during compilation, which can potentially cause these values to be treated as a different type than intended. This type confusion vulnerability was discovered by Xiangwei Zhang and kkdong of Tencent Security YUNDING LAB (Mozilla Advisory).

Impact

The vulnerability has been classified as high impact. When exploited, it could lead to type confusion issues where values are interpreted incorrectly, potentially resulting in memory corruption. This could potentially be leveraged for arbitrary code execution in affected applications (Mozilla Advisory).

Exploitability

While specific exploit details are not publicly available, the vulnerability has been assessed as having high impact, suggesting significant security implications. The bug requires specific conditions involving WebAssembly execution on 64-bit CPU systems (Mozilla Advisory).

Mitigation and workarounds

Mozilla has addressed this vulnerability in Firefox 136, Firefox ESR 115.21, Firefox ESR 128.8, Thunderbird 136, and Thunderbird 128.8. Users are strongly advised to update to these latest versions to mitigate the security risk (Mozilla Advisory, Ubuntu Security).

Additional resources

Linux Distribution fix status

Fix availability across major Linux distributions and their releases.

Debian

Fixed

bookworm

thunderbird: 1:128.8.0esr-1~deb12u1

Fixed

sid

thunderbird: 1:128.8.0esr-1

Fixed

trixie

thunderbird: 1:128.8.0esr-1

Fixed

Ubuntu

Fixed

bionic (esm-apps)

mozjs38

Unknown

devel

firefox

Not Affected

focal

firefox: 136.0+build3-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

Fixed

focal (esm-apps)

mozjs52

Unknown

jammy

thunderbird: 1:128.12.0+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1

Fixed

jammy (esm-apps)

mozjs78

Unknown

noble

firefox

Not Affected

questing

firefox

Not Affected

RHEL / CentOS

Fixed

RHEL 8

:appstream:firefox-0:128.8.0-1.el8_10.src

Fixed

RHEL 9

:appstream:firefox-0:128.8.0-1.el9_0.src

Fixed

RHEL 10

firefox-flatpak-container

Affected

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