Input validation error in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2024-2606

 

Input validation error in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2024-2606

Published: March 19, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU87630
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 7.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-2606
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.

The vulnerability exists due to incorrect processing of WASM register values, which leads to arbitrary integers turning into pointer values. A remote attacker can execute arbitrary code on the system.


Affected software

Mozilla Firefox
Ubuntu
openEuler
Fedora
firefox (Ubuntu package)
firefox-flatpak
firefox
firefox-debuginfo
firefox-debugsource

How to mitigate CVE-2024-2606

Install updates from vendor's website.

Mozilla Firefox - update to 124.0
firefox (Ubuntu package) - update to 124.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
firefox-flatpak - update to 124.0-1
firefox - addressed in versions 124.0-1.fc38, 124.0-1.fc39, 124.0-1.fc40
firefox - update to 128.8.0-1
firefox-debuginfo - update to 128.8.0-1
firefox-debugsource - update to 128.8.0-1

External References

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