Resource exhaustion in Firefox for Android and Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2024-2613

Vulnerability identifier: #VU87641

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2024-2613

CWE-ID: CWE-400

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of data when decoding a QUIC ACK frame. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted website and consume excessive memory resources.

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

Install updates from vendor's website.

Firefox for Android - update to 124.0
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

• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2024-12/

• Multiple vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox
• Fedora 38 update for firefox
• Fedora 40 update for firefox
• Fedora 39 update for firefox
• Fedora 39 Flatpaks update for firefox-flatpak
• Ubuntu update for firefox
• openEuler 22.03 LTS SP4 update for firefox
• openEuler 22.03 LTS SP3 update for firefox