CVE-2024-2616 (GCVE-0-2024-2616)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-19 12:02 – Updated: 2025-02-13 17:41
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Summary
To harden ICU against exploitation, the behavior for out-of-memory conditions was changed to crash instead of attempt to continue. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 115.9 and Thunderbird < 115.9.
Severity ?
2.7 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • Improve handling of out-of-memory conditions in ICU
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Mozilla Firefox ESR Affected: unspecified , < 115.9 (custom)
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Mozilla Thunderbird Affected: unspecified , < 115.9 (custom)
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Credits
Ryan VanderMeulen and Dan Minor
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