Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2013-49
Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:22.0 / rv:17.0.7)
- Announced
- June 25, 2013
- Reporter
- Mozilla Developers
- Impact
- Critical
- Products
- Firefox, Firefox ESR, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird, Thunderbird ESR
- Fixed in
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- Firefox 22
- Firefox ESR 17.0.7
- SeaMonkey 2.19
- Thunderbird 17.0.7
- Thunderbird ESR 17.0.7
Description
Mozilla developers identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.
In general these flaws cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird product because scripting is disabled, but are potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts.
References
Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, and Andrew McCreight reported memory safety problems and crashes that affect Firefox ESR 17, and Firefox 21.
Christian Holler, Bobby Holley, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Ben Turner, Ehsan Akhgari, Mats Palmgren, and John Schoenick reported memory safety problems and crashes that affect Firefox 21.