SB2025012308 - Gentoo update for Mozilla Firefox
Published: January 23, 2025
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 31 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-10458)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to a permission leak via embed or object elements. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted webpage that embeds a trusted website and force the browser to inherit permissions from this trusted website.
2) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-10459)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error in layout with accessibility. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting 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.
3) Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-10460)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to the origin of an external protocol handler prompt can be obscured using a "data:" URL within an iframe. A remote attacker can perform spoofing attack.
4) Universal cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-10461)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data when handling multipart/x-mixed-replace responses. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of any website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
5) Spoofing attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-10462)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to the browser truncates long URLs when displaying origin of permission prompt. A remote attacker can perform a spoofing attack by providing an overly long URL that looks like a trusted domain name.
6) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-10463)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to a cross-origin video frame leak. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website and access video frames cross-origin from a different browser tab.
7) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-10464)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to repeated writes to history interface attributes. A remote attacker can crash the browser.
8) Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-10465)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a clipboard "paste" button persists across different tabs. A remote attacker can trick the victim into pasting content into a malicious tab.
9) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-10466)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources within the application when handling DOM push subscriptions. A remote attacker can send specially crafted data to the browser and crash it.
10) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-10467)
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.
11) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-10468)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.
The vulnerability exists due to a race condition in IndexedDB. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website and execute arbitrary code on the system.
12) Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-11692)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an error, which leads to a select dropdown be shown over another tab. A remote attacker can perform spoofing attack against arbitrary website.
13) Security features bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-11694)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented CSP.
The vulnerability exists due to Enhanced Tracking Protection's Strict mode allows a CSP frame-src bypass and DOM-based XSS through the Google SafeFrame shim in the Web Compatibility extension. A remote attacker can masquerade malicious frames as legitimate content.
14) Spoofing attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-11695)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect processing of URL containing Arabic script and whitespace characters. A remote attacker can spoof the URL of the website.
15) Improper error handling (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-11696)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to improper exception handling thrown by the loadManifestFromFile method when validating add-on signatures. A remote attacker can bypass the implemented signature verification process and perform installation of a malicious add-on.
16) Data Handling (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-11697)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper keypress handling in executable file confirmation dialog. A remote attacker can trick the victim into executing a malicious file.
17) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-11699)
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.
18) Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-11700)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform tapjacking attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an error in the confirmation dialog. A remote attacker can trick the victim into unknowingly approving the launch of external applications on the device.
19) Spoofing attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-11701)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a misleading address bar state during navigation interruption. A remote attacker can perform spoofing attack.
20) Double free (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-11704)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error within the sec_pkcs7_decoder_start_decrypt() function. A remote attacker can trick the victim into connecting to a specially crafted website, trigger a double free error and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
21) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-11705)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error in NSC_DeriveKey. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website and crash the browser.
22) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-11706)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error within the SEC_ASN1DecodeItem_Util() function in pk12util. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted website and crash the browser.
23) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-11708)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to missing thread synchronization primitives. A remote attacker can trigger a data race of the PlaybackParams structure and gain access to sensitive information.
24) Unintended Proxy or Intermediary (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-0237)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to WebChannel API does not check the sending principal but rather accepted the principal being sent when transporting data across processes. A local user can perform confused deputy attack and escalate privileges on the system.
25) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-0238)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error when breaking lines in text. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted webpage and execute arbitrary code on the system.
26) Improper Certificate Validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-0239)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform MitM attack.
The vulnerability exists due to Alt-Svc ALPN does not properly validate certificates when the original server is redirecting to an insecure site. A remote attacker can perform MitM attack.
27) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-0240)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error when parsing a JavaScript module as JSON. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website and execute arbitrary code on the system.
28) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-0241)
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.
29) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-0242)
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 into visiting 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.
30) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-0243)
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 into visiting 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.
31) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-0247)
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.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.