Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2010-49
Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:1.9.2.9/ 1.9.1.12)
- Announced
- September 7, 2010
- Reporter
- Mozilla developers and community
- Impact
- Critical
- Products
- Firefox, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird
- Fixed in
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- Firefox 3.5.12
- Firefox 3.6.9
- SeaMonkey 2.0.7
- Thunderbird 3.0.7
- Thunderbird 3.1.3
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.
References
Peter Van der Beken, Jason Oster, Jesse Ruderman, Igor Bukanov, Jeff Walden, Gary Kwong and Olli Pettay reported memory safety problems that affected Firefox 3.6 and Firefox 3.5.
Also, special thanks to Michal Zalewski whose contributions helped identify two of the security bugs fixed in this release.