CVE-2024-6603 (GCVE-0-2024-6603)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-09 14:25 – Updated: 2025-10-30 16:14
VLAI
Title
Memory corruption in thread creation
Summary
In an out-of-memory scenario an allocation could fail but free would have been called on the pointer afterwards leading to memory corruption. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 128, Firefox ESR < 115.13, Thunderbird < 115.13, and Thunderbird < 128.
Severity
7.4 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-823 - Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Mozilla Firefox Affected: unspecified , < 128 (custom)
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Mozilla Firefox ESR Affected: unspecified , < 115.13 (custom)
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Mozilla Thunderbird Affected: unspecified , < 115.13 (custom)
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Mozilla Thunderbird Affected: unspecified , < 128 (custom)
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mozilla firefox Affected: 0 , < 128 (custom)
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mozilla firefox_esr Affected: 0 , < 115.13 (custom)
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Credits
Irvan Kurniawan
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