Mullvad VPN client out of band write vulnerability [CVE-2024-55884]
CVE number – CVE-2024-55884
In the Mullvad VPN client 2024.6 (Desktop), 2024.8 (iOS), and 2024.8-beta1 (Android), the exception-handling alternate stack can be exhausted, leading to heap-based out-of-bounds writes in enable() in exception_logging/unix.rs, aka MLLVD-CR-24-01.
NOTE: achieving code execution is considered non-trivial.
Further details – https://x41-dsec.de/news/2024/12/11/mullvad/
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