CVE-2024-29944

Published: 22 March 2024

An attacker was able to inject an event handler into a privileged object that would allow arbitrary JavaScript execution in the parent process. Note: This vulnerability affects Desktop Firefox only, it does not affect mobile versions of Firefox. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 124.0.1 and Firefox ESR < 115.9.1.

Notes

mozjs contains a copy of the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine

starting with Ubuntu 22.04, the firefox package is just a script
that installs the Firefox snap

Status

References

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1886852
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-15/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-16/
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6710-1
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-29944
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian