Buffer overflow in Firefox for Android and Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2024-4778

 

Buffer overflow in Firefox for Android and Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2024-4778

Published: May 15, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU89559
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-2024-4778
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 (Ubuntu package)
firefox
firefox-debuginfo
firefox-debugsource

How to mitigate CVE-2024-4778

Install updates from vendor's website.

Firefox for Android - update to 126.0
Mozilla Firefox - update to 126.0
www-client/firefox - update to 104
firefox (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 126.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1, 126.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
firefox - addressed in versions 126.0-5.fc38, 126.0-5.fc39, 126.0-5.fc40
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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