Buffer overflow in Firefox for Android and Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2024-3865

 

Buffer overflow in Firefox for Android and Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2024-3865

Published: April 17, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU88660
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-2024-3865
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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 content. 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.


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-2024-3865

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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