Use-after-free in Firefox for Android and Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2024-3853

 

Use-after-free in Firefox for Android and Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2024-3853

Published: April 17, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU88654
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-2024-3853
CWE-ID: CWE-416
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted website and execute arbitrary code on the system.

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


Affected software

Firefox for Android
Mozilla Firefox
Gentoo Linux
Ubuntu
openEuler
Fedora
www-client/firefox
firefox
firefox (Ubuntu package)
firefox-debuginfo
firefox-debugsource

How to mitigate CVE-2024-3853

Install updates from vendor's website.

Mozilla Firefox - update to 125.0
www-client/firefox - update to 104
firefox - addressed in versions 125.0-1.fc38, 125.0-1.fc39, 125.0-1.fc40
firefox (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 125.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.2, 125.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
firefox - update to 128.8.0-1
firefox-debuginfo - update to 128.8.0-1
firefox-debugsource - update to 128.8.0-1

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