Browser crash via libaudio use-after-free
Published Jun 19, 2023 · Updated Dec 11, 2024
Use-after-free in libaudio in Mozilla Firefox for Android before 110.1.0 allows remote attackers to crash the browser during audio playback. The Android audio path selects the AAudio backend on API level 30 and earlier, where libaudio can access freed memory during callback processing. Affected devices can experience a SIGSEGV browser crash; Mozilla reports no effect on other Firefox variants.
Summary
What happened
Use-after-free in libaudio in Mozilla Firefox for Android before 110.1.0 allows remote attackers to crash the browser during audio playback. The Android audio path selects the AAudio backend on API level 30 and earlier, where libaudio can access freed memory during callback processing. Affected devices can experience a SIGSEGV browser crash; Mozilla reports no effect on other Firefox variants.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-25747
- Published
- Jun 19, 2023
- Updated
- Dec 11, 2024
- Vendor
- Mozilla
- Product
- Firefox for Android
- Classifications
- CWE-416
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Jun 19, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Dec 11, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=unspecified <110.1.0
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