SB2024080611 - Gentoo update for Mozilla Firefox
Published: August 6, 2024
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 35 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Multiple Interpretations of UI Input (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-2609)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform clickjacking attack.
The vulnerability exists due to the permission prompt input delay can expire while the window is not in focus. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted website and perform a clickjacking attack.
2) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-3302)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when handling HTTP/2 CONTINUATION frames. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crated website and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
3) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-3853)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted website and execute arbitrary code on the system.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
4) Processor optimization removal or modification of security-critical code (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-3854)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect optimization, when some code patterns in the JIT incorrectly optimized switch statements and generated code with out-of-bounds-reads. A remote attacker can abuse such behavior to execute arbitrary code on the system.
5) Processor optimization removal or modification of security-critical code (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-3855)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.
The vulnerability exists due to JIT incorrectly optimized MSubstr operations. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted website, trigger an out-of-bounds read and potentially compromise the affected system.
6) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-3856)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error during WASM garbage collection. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted website and execute arbitrary code on the system.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
7) Processor optimization removal or modification of security-critical code (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-3857)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect optimization when JIT created incorrect code for arguments in certain cases. A remote attacker can abuse such behavior to execute arbitrary code on the system.
8) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-3858)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to crash the browser.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing JavaScript. A remote attacker can mutate a JavaScript object so that the JIT could crash while tracing it.
9) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-3859)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow when handling OpenType fonts. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted website and gain access to sensitive information.
10) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-3860)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when tracing empty shape lists. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
11) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-3861)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to crash the browser.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error. If an AlignedBuffer were assigned to itself, the subsequent self-move could result in an incorrect reference count and later use-after-free.
12) Access of uninitialized pointer (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-3862)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to crash the browser.
The vulnerability exists due to usage of uninitialized memory in MarkStack assignment operator. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit the website and crash the browser.
13) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-3864)
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 trick the victim to open a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
14) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-3865)
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.
15) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-4764)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error when handling newly connected audio input via multiple WebRTC threads. A remote attacker can trick the victim to open a specially crafted website and execute arbitrary code on the system.
16) Reversible One-Way Hash (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-4765)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of another application.
The vulnerability exists due to browser stored web application manifests using an insecure MD5 hash, which allows for a hash collision to overwrite another application's manifest. A remote attacker can execute arbitrary code in the context of another application.
17) Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-4766)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to the way fullscreen notifications are handled by the browser. A remote attacker can obscure the fullscreen notification and perform spoofing attack.
18) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-4771)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted website, trigger a use-after-free error and execute arbitrary code on the system.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
19) Predictable Seed in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-4772)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass authentication.
The vulnerability exists due to Firefox uses an insecure rand() function to generate nonce for HTTP digest authentication. A remote attacker can guess nonce and potentially gain unauthorized access to the victim's session.
20) Spoofing attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-4773)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect handling of network errors during page load, which could lead to the prior content to remain in view with a blank URL bar. A remote attacker can perform spoofing attack.
21) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-4774)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass certain security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to an error in ShmemCharMapHashEntry(). A remote attacker can bypass certain security restrictions.
22) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-4775)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DoS attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when handling WASM code in the built-in profiler. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted website and crash the browser.
Note, this issue only affects the application when the profiler is running.
23) Multiple Interpretations of UI Input (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-4776)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to disable the browser window.
The vulnerability exists due to an error when displaying a file dialog while in full-screen mode. A remote attacker can disable the browser window.
24) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-4778)
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.
25) Improper Restriction of Rendered UI Layers or Frames (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-5689)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform phishing attack.
The vulnerability exists due user confusion when taking screenshots with Firefox. In addition to detecting when a user was taking a screenshot (XXX), a website was able to overlay the "My Shots" button that appeared, and direct the user to a replica Firefox Screenshots page that could be used for phishing.
26) Security features bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-5693)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to Offscreen Canvas does not properly track cross-origin tainting. A remote attacker can access image data from another site in violation of same-origin policy.
27) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-5694)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error in the JavaScript engine. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted website and read memory in the JavaScript string section of the heap.
28) Reachable assertion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-5695)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a reachable assertion. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted website, trigger an out-of-memory condition and crash the browser.
29) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-5696)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing the text in an <input> tag. 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.
30) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-5697)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to excessive data output by the application. A website was able to detect when a user took a screenshot of a page using the built-in Screenshot functionality in Firefox.
31) Improper Restriction of Rendered UI Layers or Frames (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-5698)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an error when processing data-list. By manipulating the fullscreen feature while opening a data-list, an attacker could have overlaid a text box over the address bar. This could have led to user confusion and possible spoofing attacks.
32) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-5699)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to the way Firefox handles cookie prefixes. Cookie prefixes such as __Secure were being ignored if they
were not correctly capitalized - by spec they should be checked with a
case-insensitive comparison. This could have resulted in the browser not
correctly honoring the behaviors specified by the prefix.
33) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-5700)
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.
34) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-5701)
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.
35) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-5702)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error in the networking stack. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.