High severity7.4NVD Advisory· Published Sep 27, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2023-5170
CVE-2023-5170
Description
In canvas rendering, a compromised content process could have caused a surface to change unexpectedly, leading to a memory leak of a privileged process. This memory leak could be used to effect a sandbox escape if the correct data was leaked. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 118.
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Affected products
6<118+ 2 more
- (no CPE)range: <118
- (no CPE)range: unspecified
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <118.0
- osv-coords3 versionspkg:apk/chainguard/firefox-esrpkg:rpm/opensuse/MozillaFirefox&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/firefox-esr&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
< 118.0-r0+ 2 more
- (no CPE)range: < 118.0-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 118.0.1-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 128.5.1-1.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
3- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-41/nvdVendor Advisory
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingPermissions Required
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-10nvd
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