"We have had reports of this vulnerability being exploited in the wild," Mozilla wrote, highlighting the urgency for users to update their systems immediately to mitigate potential attacks from this zero-day exploit identified as CVE-2024-9680.
"Within an hour of receiving the sample, we had convened a team of security, browser, compiler, and platform engineers to reverse engineer the exploit, force it to trigger its payload, and understand how it worked," wrote Tom Ritter, security engineer at Mozilla, illustrating the company's swift response to the threat.
This zero-day vulnerability, stemming from a use-after-free flaw in Animation timelines, underscores ongoing challenges in memory management, with Mozilla emphasizing its commitment to enhancing Firefox security against such complex exploits.
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