CVE-2023-5168

Mozilla: Out-of-bounds write in FilterNodeD2D1

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

9.8

CVSS 3.1

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Published · September 26, 2023

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in Mozilla. The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as: A compromised content process could have provided malicious data to FilterNodeD2D1, resulting in an out-of-bounds write, leading to a potentially exploitable crash in a privileged process.

Statement

This bug only affects Firefox on Windows. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is not affected by this CVE.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 9.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write