CVE-2024-2616

Publication date 19 March 2024

Last updated 28 February 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

2.7 · Low

Score breakdown

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
firefox 24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
mozjs102 24.04 LTS noble Ignored
23.10 mantic Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.04 LTS jammy Ignored
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
mozjs38 24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic Ignored
mozjs52 24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Ignored
18.04 LTS bionic Ignored
mozjs68 24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Ignored
mozjs78 24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Ignored
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
mozjs91 24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Ignored
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
thunderbird 24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Fixed 1:115.9.0+build1-0ubuntu0.23.10.1
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 1:115.9.0+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 1:115.9.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

Notes

tyhicks

mozjs contains a copy of the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine

mdeslaur

starting with Ubuntu 22.04, the firefox package is just a script that installs the Firefox snap only appears to affect esr version of firefox

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 2.7 · Low
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact Low
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L