Out-of-bounds Write Affecting Firefox package, versions [,130)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FIREFOX-7891200
  • published4 Sept 2024
  • disclosed3 Sept 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Sep 2024

CVE-2024-8384  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Firefox to version 130 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write due to the mis-coloring of cross-compartment objects under out-of-memory conditions. An attacker can cause memory corruption by exploiting the timing between two garbage collection passes.

CVSS Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1