Firefixed: It's maintenance time for low-complexity, high-impact security flaw
It's patch time for Firefox fans as Mozilla issues a security advisory for a critical code execution vulnerability in the browser.
Mozilla said CVE-2024-9680 is a use-after-free issue in Animation timelines – the pane within the Firefox browser's Page Inspector that depicts how a given element's animation progresses.
Likewise, Italy's advisory also rated the vulnerability's impact as"severe," giving it a score of 79.23/100, factoring in the CVSS rating, availability of patches and working exploits, and how prevalent the product is.GNOME 47 brings back some customization options, but let's not go crazyThe future everyone wanted – in-car ads tailored to your journey and passengers
A patch is now available for Firefox and Firefox Extended Support Release . Upgrading to version 131.0.2 in the regular release and versions 115.16.1 or 128.3.1 for Firefox ESR will fix the vulnerability. Critical vulnerabilities affecting Firefox – which runs on its own Quantum browser engine rather than on Chromium – are relatively rare. This week's patches are the first to address a top-priority bug in Firefox since March, and only a handful have been discovered in the past few years.that allowed attackers to execute JavaScript code. Mozilla classified both as"critical," although one was only given an 8.4 score on the CVSS.
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