Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2024-32
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 128
- Announced
- July 11, 2024
- Impact
- high
- Products
- Thunderbird
- Fixed in
-
- Thunderbird 128
In general, these flaws cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird product because scripting is disabled when reading mail, but are potential risks in browser or browser-like contexts.
Updated Sept 6, 2024 to add CVE-2024-7652 which was embargoed in the original advisory due affecting multiple organizations.
#CVE-2024-7652: Type Confusion in Async Generators in Javascript Engine
- Reporter
- Nils Bars
- Impact
- high
Description
An error in the ECMA-262 specification relating to Async Generators could have resulted in a type confusion, potentially leading to memory corruption and an exploitable crash.
References
#CVE-2024-6606: Out-of-bounds read in clipboard component
- Reporter
- dalmurino
- Impact
- high
Description
Clipboard code failed to check the index on an array access. This could have lead to an out-of-bounds read.
References
#CVE-2024-6607: Leaving pointerlock by pressing the escape key could be prevented
- Reporter
- Irvan Kurniawan
- Impact
- moderate
Description
It was possible to prevent a user from exiting pointerlock when pressing escape
and to overlay customValidity notifications from a <select> element over certain
permission prompts. This could be used to confuse a user into giving a site unintended permissions.
References
#CVE-2024-6608: Cursor could be moved out of the viewport using pointerlock.
- Reporter
- Irvan Kurniawan
- Impact
- moderate
Description
It was possible to move the cursor using pointerlock from an iframe. This allowed moving the cursor outside of the viewport and the application window.
References
#CVE-2024-6609: Memory corruption in NSS
- Reporter
- Irvan Kurniawan
- Impact
- moderate
Description
When almost out-of-memory an elliptic curve key which was never allocated could have been freed again.
References
#CVE-2024-6610: Form validation popups could block exiting full-screen mode
- Reporter
- Raphael
- Impact
- moderate
Description
Form validation popups could capture escape key presses. Therefore, spamming form validation messages could be used to prevent users from exiting full-screen mode.
References
#CVE-2024-6600: Memory corruption in WebGL API
- Reporter
- pwn2car
- Impact
- moderate
Description
Due to large allocation checks in Angle for GLSL shaders being too lenient an out-of-bounds access could occur when allocating more than 8192 ints in private shader memory on mac OS.
References
#CVE-2024-6601: Race condition in permission assignment
- Reporter
- Andreas Farre
- Impact
- moderate
Description
A race condition could lead to a cross-origin container obtaining permissions of the top-level origin.
References
#CVE-2024-6602: Memory corruption in NSS
- Reporter
- Ronald Crane
- Impact
- moderate
Description
A mismatch between allocator and deallocator could have lead to memory corruption.
References
#CVE-2024-6603: Memory corruption in thread creation
- Reporter
- Irvan Kurniawan
- Impact
- moderate
Description
In an out-of-memory scenario an allocation could fail but free would have been called on the pointer afterwards leading to memory corruption.
References
#CVE-2024-6611: Incorrect handling of SameSite cookies
- Reporter
- Pedro Bernardo
- Impact
- low
Description
A nested iframe, triggering a cross-site navigation, could send SameSite=Strict or Lax cookies.
References
#CVE-2024-6612: CSP violation leakage when using devtools
- Reporter
- Aidan Stephenson & Yannik Marchand
- Impact
- low
Description
CSP violations generated links in the console tab of the developer tools, pointing to the violating resource. This caused a DNS prefetch which leaked that a CSP violation happened.
References
#CVE-2024-6613: Incorrect listing of stack frames
- Reporter
- Nils Bars
- Impact
- low
Description
The frame iterator could get stuck in a loop when encountering certain wasm frames leading to incorrect stack traces.
References
#CVE-2024-6614: Incorrect listing of stack frames
- Reporter
- Nils Bars
- Impact
- low
Description
The frame iterator could get stuck in a loop when encountering certain wasm frames leading to incorrect stack traces.
References
#CVE-2024-6604: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 128, Firefox ESR 115.13, Thunderbird 128, and Thunderbird 115.13
- Reporter
- Mozilla developers
- Impact
- high
Description
Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 127, Firefox ESR 115.12, Thunderbird 127, and Thunderbird 115.12. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code.
References
#CVE-2024-6615: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 128 and Thunderbird 128
- Reporter
- the Mozilla Fuzzing Team
- Impact
- high
Description
Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 127 and Thunderbird 127. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code.