CVE-2024-6607

It was possible to prevent a user from exiting pointerlock when pressing escape and to overlay customValidity notifications from a <select> element over certain permission prompts. This could be used to confuse a user into giving a site unintended permissions. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 128 and Thunderbird < 128.

Weakness

The product attempts to return a memory resource to the system, but it calls the wrong release function or calls the appropriate release function incorrectly.

Affected Software

Extended Description

This weakness can take several forms, such as:

Potential Mitigations

• Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
• For example, glibc in Linux provides protection against free of invalid pointers.

References

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1694513
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-29/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-32/