Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-5170 - Memory Leak vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1846686
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1846686
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-10
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-10
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-41/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-41/