Use After Free Affecting Firefox-ESR package, versions [,115.16.1)[128.0,128.3.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.36% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FIREFOXESR-8179271
  • published10 Oct 2024
  • disclosed9 Oct 2024
  • creditDamien Schaeffer from ESET

Introduced: 9 Oct 2024

CVE-2024-9680  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Firefox-ESR to version 115.16.1, 128.3.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free in Animation timelines. An attacker can execute arbitrary code on the system by manipulating the state of memory after it has been freed.

CVSS Scores

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version 3.1