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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-19 12:02 – Updated: 2025-02-13 17:41
VLAI
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
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-03-19 14:53 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
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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