CVE-2024-0752 - firefox: use-after-free crash could have occurred on macOS if a Firefox update were being applied on a very busy system

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MEDIUM

firefox: use-after-free crash could have occurred on macOS if a Firefox update were being applied on a very busy system

Published Jan 23, 2024

6.5

MEDIUM

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 0.42%

Description

A use-after-free crash could have occurred on macOS if a Firefox update were being applied on a very busy system. This could have resulted in an exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 122.

Affected products

Vendor Mozilla Product Firefox Default
n/a
- Version
  unspecified
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  <122

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor

Product

Default status

Versions

Mozilla

Firefox

n/a

Version	Status	Constraints
unspecified	affected	<122

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

firefox

Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

firefox

Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

firefox

Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

firefox:flatpak/firefox

Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

firefox

Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

firefox:flatpak/firefox

Not affected

Product	Package	State	Advisory
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	firefox	Not affected	n/a
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	firefox	Not affected	n/a
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	firefox	Not affected	n/a
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	firefox:flatpak/firefox	Not affected	n/a
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	firefox	Not affected	n/a
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	firefox:flatpak/firefox	Not affected	n/a

Remediation

Red Hat statement

This vulnerability only affects Non ESR versions of Firefox and we don't ship Non ESR.

Weaknesses (2)

CWE-400

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CWE-416

Use After Free

References (7)

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-0752
Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1866840
Issue TrackingPermissions Required
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2260019
Issue Tracking
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2024-16541
Advisory
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-0752
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-0752
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-01/
Release NotesVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-0752		Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1866840		Issue TrackingPermissions Required
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2260019		Issue Tracking
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2024-16541		Advisory
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-0752
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-0752
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-01/		Release NotesVendor Advisory