Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 27, 2023· Updated May 1, 2025

CVE-2023-5172

Description

A hashtable in the Ion Engine could have been mutated while there was a live interior reference, leading to a potential use-after-free and exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 118.

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Affected products

Mozilla Corporation/Firefoxllm-fuzzy2 versions
<118+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <118
- (no CPE)range: unspecified
osv-coords3 versions
pkg:apk/chainguard/firefox-esr pkg:rpm/opensuse/firefox-esr&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed pkg:rpm/opensuse/MozillaFirefox&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
< 118-r0+ 2 more
- (no CPE)range: < 118-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 128.5.1-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 118.0.1-1.1

Patches

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References

bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgimitre
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-10mitre
www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-41/mitre

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