Mozilla Firefox on macOS Apple GPU Driver memory corruption

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Mozilla Firefox on macOS. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Apple GPU Driver. Performing a manipulation results in memory corruption. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-11691. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox on macOS (the affected version is unknown). It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown code of the component Apple GPU Driver. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

An attacker could have caused memory corruption due to a flaw in Apple's GPU driver; this can be avoided by working around the flaw. *Note: This issue only affected macOS operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected.* This vulnerability affects Firefox < 133, Firefox ESR < 128.5, Firefox ESR < 115.18, Thunderbird < 133, and Thunderbird < 128.5.

It is possible to read the advisory at bugzilla.mozilla.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-11691 since 11/25/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 12/13/2024).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 211877 (Mozilla Firefox ESR < 128.5), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (211877). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• Web Browser

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• Mozilla

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• Firefox

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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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