CVE-2024-8384

mozilla: Garbage collection could mis-color cross-compartment objects in OOM conditions

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

9.8

CVSS 3.1

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Published · September 3, 2024

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

The Mozilla Foundation's Security Advisory: The JavaScript garbage collector could mis-color cross-compartment objects if OOM conditions were detected at the right point between two passes. This could have led to memory corruption.

Statement

Red Hat Product Security rates the severity of this flaw as determined by the Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 9.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write