Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2011-54
Potentially exploitable crash in the YARR regular expression library
- Announced
- December 20, 2011
- Reporter
- Aki Helin
- Impact
- Critical
- Products
- Firefox, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird
- Fixed in
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- Firefox 9
- SeaMonkey 2.6
- Thunderbird 9
Description
Security researcher Aki Helin reported a crash in the YARR regular expression library that could be triggered by javascript in web content.
The YARR library was not used in older versions of the Mozilla browser engine. This vulnerability does not affect Firefox 3.6 or Thunderbird 3.1