Spidermonkey: Multiple Vulnerabilities — GLSA 202412-13

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Spidermonkey, the worst of which could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Affected packages

dev-lang/spidermonkey on all architectures
Affected versions < 115.15.0
Unaffected versions >= 115.15.0

Background

SpiderMonkey is Mozilla’s JavaScript and WebAssembly Engine, used in Firefox, Servo and various other projects. It is written in C++, Rust and JavaScript. You can embed it into C++ and Rust projects, and it can be run as a stand-alone shell.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Spidermonkey. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Spidermonkey users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/spidermonkey-115.15.0:115"
 

References

Release date
December 08, 2024

Latest revision
December 08, 2024: 1

Severity
high

Exploitable
local and remote

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