Bug 2411996 (CVE-2024-51317)

Summary: CVE-2024-51317 netsurf: Use after free in NetSurf
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A use after free vulnerability has been discovered in the libdom component of NetSurf. Dom node reference counting was found to be incorrect and a node may be deallocated even if external code (e.g., JavaScript) has a valid reference to it, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability.
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Bug Depends On: 2412075, 2412074, 2412076    
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-11-03 15:02:27 UTC
An issue in NetSurf v.3.11 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via the dom_node_normalize function