Mozilla Fixes Firefox Zero-Day Vulnerability
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•Mozilla fixes Firefox zero-day actively exploited in attacks
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Mozilla has issued an emergency security update for the Firefox browser to address a critical use-after-free vulnerability that is currently exploited in attacks.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-9680 , was discovered by ESET researcher Damien Schaeffer .
The flaw occurs when memory that has been freed is still used by the program, allowing malicious actors to add their own malicious data to the memory region.
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