Buffer overflow in Firefox for Android and Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2024-2615

Vulnerability identifier: #VU87642

CSH Severity: High

CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2024-2615

CWE-ID: CWE-119

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

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

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML input. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted website, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

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

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