Buffer overflow in Firefox for Android and Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2024-5701

Vulnerability identifier: #VU91751

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-2024-5701

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 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.

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

Install updates from vendor's website.

Firefox for Android - update to 127.0
Mozilla Firefox - update to 127.0
www-client/firefox - update to 104
firefox - update to 127.0-1.fc40
firefox (Ubuntu package) - update to 127.0.2+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

• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2024-25/

• Multiple vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR
• Fedora 40 update for firefox
• Ubuntu update for firefox
• Gentoo update for Mozilla Firefox
• openEuler 22.03 LTS SP3 update for firefox
• openEuler 22.03 LTS SP4 update for firefox