Vulnerability CVE-2023-5173


Published: 2023-09-27

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.

 References:
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-41/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1823172

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