Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2024-41
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 115.15
- Announced
- September 3, 2024
- Impact
- high
- Products
- Firefox ESR
- Fixed in
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- Firefox ESR 115.15
#CVE-2024-8381: Type confusion when looking up a property name in a "with" block
- Reporter
- Nils Bars
- Impact
- high
Description
A potentially exploitable type confusion could be triggered when looking up a property name on an object being used as the with environment.
References
#CVE-2024-8382: Internal event interfaces were exposed to web content when browser EventHandler listener callbacks ran
- Reporter
- Gregory Pappas
- Impact
- moderate
Description
Internal browser event interfaces were exposed to web content when privileged EventHandler listener callbacks ran for those events. Web content that tried to use those interfaces would not be able to use them with elevated privileges, but their presence would indicate certain browser features had been used, such as when a user opened the Dev Tools console.
References
#CVE-2024-8383: Firefox did not ask before openings news: links in an external application
- Reporter
- D7
- Impact
- moderate
Description
Firefox normally asks for confirmation before asking the operating system to find an application to handle a scheme that the browser does not support. It did not ask before doing so for the Usenet-related schemes news: and snews:. Since most operating systems don't have a trusted newsreader installed by default, an unscrupulous program that the user downloaded could register itself as a handler. The website that served the application download could then launch that application at will.
References
#CVE-2024-8384: Garbage collection could mis-color cross-compartment objects in OOM conditions
- Reporter
- the Mozilla Fuzzing Team
- Impact
- moderate
Description
The JavaScript garbage collector could mis-color cross-compartment objects if OOM conditions were detected at the right point between two passes. This could have led to memory corruption.