Double free in Firefox for Android and Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2024-11704

 

Double free in Firefox for Android and Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2024-11704

Published: November 26, 2024 / Updated: February 4, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU100964
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 7.4 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-11704
CWE-ID: CWE-415
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error within the sec_pkcs7_decoder_start_decrypt() function. A remote attacker can trick the victim into connecting to a specially crafted website, trigger a double free error and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


Affected software

Firefox for Android
Mozilla Firefox
Firefox ESR
Gentoo Linux
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5
Debian Linux
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
SUSE Enterprise Storage
Slackware Linux
SUSE Package Hub 15
Desktop Applications Module
openSUSE Leap
Ubuntu
openEuler
Fedora
Oracle Solaris
Mozilla Thunderbird
nss
www-client/firefox
mozilla-firefox
firefox-esr (Debian package)
thunderbird (Debian package)
MozillaFirefox-devel
MozillaFirefox-debuginfo
MozillaFirefox-debugsource
MozillaFirefox-translations-common
MozillaFirefox
MozillaThunderbird-debugsource
MozillaThunderbird-translations-common
MozillaThunderbird-debuginfo
MozillaThunderbird
MozillaThunderbird-translations-other
MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream
MozillaFirefox-translations-other
dev-lang/spidermonkey
mail-client/thunderbird
mail-client/thunderbird-bin
thunderbird
thunderbird-debuginfo
thunderbird-debugsource
thunderbird-librnp-rnp
thunderbird-wayland
firefox (Ubuntu package)
firefox

How to mitigate CVE-2024-11704

Install updates from vendor's website.

Firefox for Android - update to 133.0
Mozilla Firefox - update to 133.0
Mozilla Thunderbird - addressed in versions 128.7.0, 133.0
Firefox ESR - update to 128.7.0
nss - addressed in versions 3.106.0-1.fc40, 3.106.0-1.fc41
Oracle Solaris - addressed in versions 11.3 ESU 36.34, 11.4 SRU 80
www-client/firefox - update to 104
mozilla-firefox - update to 128.7.0esr
firefox-esr (Debian package) - update to 128.7.0esr-1~deb12u1
thunderbird (Debian package) - update to 1:128.7.0esr-1~deb12u1
MozillaFirefox-devel - addressed in versions 128.7.0-112.246.1, 128.7.0-150200.152.170.1
MozillaFirefox-debuginfo - addressed in versions 128.7.0-112.246.1, 128.7.0-150200.152.170.1
MozillaFirefox-debugsource - addressed in versions 128.7.0-112.246.1, 128.7.0-150200.152.170.1
MozillaFirefox-translations-common - addressed in versions 128.7.0-112.246.1, 128.7.0-150200.152.170.1
MozillaFirefox - addressed in versions 128.7.0-112.246.1, 128.7.0-150200.152.170.1
MozillaThunderbird-debugsource - update to 128.7.0-150200.8.200.1
MozillaThunderbird-translations-common - update to 128.7.0-150200.8.200.1
MozillaThunderbird-debuginfo - update to 128.7.0-150200.8.200.1
MozillaThunderbird - update to 128.7.0-150200.8.200.1
MozillaThunderbird-translations-other - update to 128.7.0-150200.8.200.1
MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream - update to 128.7.0-150200.152.170.1
MozillaFirefox-translations-other - update to 128.7.0-150200.152.170.1
dev-lang/spidermonkey - update to 128.9.0
mail-client/thunderbird - update to 128.9.0
mail-client/thunderbird-bin - update to 128.9.0
thunderbird - update to 128.11.1-1
thunderbird-debuginfo - update to 128.11.1-1
thunderbird-debugsource - update to 128.11.1-1
thunderbird-librnp-rnp - update to 128.11.1-1
thunderbird-wayland - update to 128.11.1-1
firefox (Ubuntu package) - update to 133.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
firefox - addressed in versions 133.0-1.fc40, 133.0-1.fc41

External References

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