Type Confusion in Mozilla products - CVE-2024-7520

 

Type Confusion in Mozilla products - CVE-2024-7520

Published: August 6, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU95423
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4 BT: 6.1 [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/E:U/U:Amber]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-7520
CWE-ID: CWE-843
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 type confusion error in WebAssembly. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted website, trigger a type confusion error and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


Affected software

Mozilla Firefox
Firefox ESR
Firefox for Android
Gentoo Linux
Oracle Linux
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro
Anolis OS
SUSE Enterprise Storage
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP4 LTSS
Desktop Applications Module
SUSE Package Hub 15
openSUSE Leap
Ubuntu
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions
www-client/firefox
thunderbird (Red Hat package)
thunderbird
firefox
dev-lang/spidermonkey
MozillaFirefox-debugsource
MozillaFirefox-devel
MozillaFirefox-debuginfo
MozillaFirefox-translations-common
MozillaFirefox
MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream
MozillaFirefox-translations-other
MozillaThunderbird-debugsource
MozillaThunderbird-translations-other
MozillaThunderbird-translations-common
MozillaThunderbird
MozillaThunderbird-debuginfo
mail-client/thunderbird
mail-client/thunderbird-bin
MozillaFirefox-branding-SLE
firefox (Ubuntu package)
Mozilla Thunderbird

How to mitigate CVE-2024-7520

Install updates from vendor's website.

Mozilla Firefox - update to 129.0
Firefox for Android - update to 129.0
Firefox ESR - update to 128.1.0
Mozilla Thunderbird - update to 129.0
www-client/firefox - update to 104
thunderbird (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 115.14.0-1.el8_4, 115.14.0-1.el8_6
thunderbird - update to 115.14.0-1.0.1
firefox - update to 115.14.0-2.0.1
dev-lang/spidermonkey - update to 115.15.0
MozillaFirefox-debugsource - addressed in versions 128.1.0-112.221.1, 128.1.0-150200.152.146.1
MozillaFirefox-devel - addressed in versions 128.1.0-112.221.1, 128.1.0-150200.152.146.1
MozillaFirefox-debuginfo - addressed in versions 128.1.0-112.221.1, 128.1.0-150200.152.146.1
MozillaFirefox-translations-common - addressed in versions 128.1.0-112.221.1, 128.1.0-150200.152.146.1
MozillaFirefox - addressed in versions 128.1.0-112.221.1, 128.1.0-150200.152.146.1
MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream - update to 128.1.0-150200.152.146.1
MozillaFirefox-translations-other - update to 128.1.0-150200.152.146.1
MozillaThunderbird-debugsource - update to 128.2.3-150200.8.177.1
MozillaThunderbird-translations-other - update to 128.2.3-150200.8.177.1
MozillaThunderbird-translations-common - update to 128.2.3-150200.8.177.1
MozillaThunderbird - update to 128.2.3-150200.8.177.1
MozillaThunderbird-debuginfo - update to 128.2.3-150200.8.177.1
mail-client/thunderbird - update to 128.4.0
mail-client/thunderbird-bin - update to 128.4.0
MozillaFirefox-branding-SLE - addressed in versions 128-35.15.1, 128-150200.9.16.1
firefox (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 129.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1, 129.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

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