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CVE-2024-6609 (GCVE-0-2024-6609)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-09 14:25 – Updated: 2025-11-03 22:32
VLAI
Title
Memory corruption in NSS
Summary
When almost out-of-memory an elliptic curve key which was never allocated could have been freed again. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 128 and Thunderbird < 128.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-08-22 19:02 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Mozilla Firefox Affected: unspecified , < 128 (custom)
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Credits
Irvan Kurniawan
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