Mozilla Firefox up to 127.x ANGLE allocation of resources

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 127.x. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component ANGLE. Executing a manipulation can lead to allocation of resources. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-6600. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability has been found in Mozilla Firefox up to 127.x and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown functionality of the component ANGLE. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a allocation of resources vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-770. The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Due to large allocation checks in Angle for GLSL shaders being too lenient an out-of-bounds access could occur when allocating more than 8192 ints in private shader memory on mac OS. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 128 and Firefox ESR < 115.13.

The advisory is available at bugzilla.mozilla.org. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-6600 since 07/09/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 208022 (SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : MozillaThunderbird (SUSE-SU-2024:3507-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 128 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (208022). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Web Browser

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• Mozilla

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• Firefox

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• 127

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.mozilla.org/
• Product: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

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