Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2010-26
Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.2.4/ 1.9.1.10)
- Announced
- June 22, 2010
- Reporter
- Mozilla developers and community
- Impact
- Critical
- Products
- Firefox, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird
- Fixed in
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- Firefox 3.5.10
- Firefox 3.6.4
- SeaMonkey 2.0.5
- Thunderbird 3.0.5
Description
Mozilla developers identified and fixed several stability bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these crashes 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.
References
Olli Pettay, Martijn Wargers, Justin Lebar, Jesse Ruderman, Ben Turner, Jonathan Kew and David Humphrey reported crashes in the browser engine that affected Firefox 3.6 and Firefox 3.5.
boardraider and stedenon reported a crash in the browser engine that affected Firefox 3.5 only.
Bob Clary, Igor Bukanov, Gary Kwong and Andreas Gal reported crashes in the JavaScript engine that affected Firefox 3.6 and Firefox 3.5.
Gary Kwong and David Anderson reported crashes in the JavaScript engine that affected Firefox 3.6 only.