Vulnerability CVE-2023-5170


Published: 2023-09-27

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.

 References:
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-41/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1846686

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