CVE-2023-5173
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-09-27 14:13
Modified
2024-08-02 07:52
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
security@mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1823172Permissions Required
security@mozilla.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-10
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-41/Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
MozillaFirefox
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