Use-after-free in Mozilla products - CVE-2024-2612

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted website to trigger a particular code path in SafeRefPtr and execute arbitrary code on the system.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

How to mitigate CVE-2024-2612

Sources

• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2024-12/
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2024-13/