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Unscored CVE-2023-5170 EUVD-2023-57507GHSA-2gw5-9px7-vp56

In canvas rendering, a compromised content process could have caused a surface to change unexpectedly, leading to a memory leak of a privil…

Published Sep 27, 2023 · Updated Feb 13, 2025 · Assigned by mozilla

Vendor: Mozilla Product: Firefox Package: firefox Package: mozjs102 Package: mozjs38 Package: mozjs52 Package: mozjs68 Package: mozjs78 Package: mozjs91 Category: Browsers Ecosystem: Ubuntu

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Mozilla Firefox unspecified – < 118 118

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Ubuntu

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS mozjs102 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS mozjs78 +2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS firefox 118.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 USN-6404-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS mozjs52 +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS mozjs38 +1 No fix yet —

openSUSE

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed MozillaFirefox 118.0.1-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2024:13272-1
openSUSE Tumbleweed firefox-esr 128.5.1-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

Advisories 4

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