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MFSA2023-41 Firefox: Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 118 (CVE-2023-5173)

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MFSA2023-41 Firefox: Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 118 (CVE-2023-5173)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/26/2023
Created
09/28/2023
Added
09/27/2023
Modified
10/02/2023

Description

In a non-standard configuration of Firefox, an integer overflow could have occurred based on network traffic (possibly under influence of a local unprivileged webpage), leading to an out-of-bounds write to privileged process memory. *This bug only affects Firefox if a non-standard preference allowing non-HTTPS Alternate Services (`network.http.altsvc.oe`) is enabled.* This vulnerability affects Firefox < 118.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-118_0

References

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