Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2015-126
Crash when accessing HTML tables with accessibility tools on OS X
- Announced
- November 3, 2015
- Reporter
- Frédéric Wang
- Impact
- Moderate
- Products
- Firefox
- Fixed in
-
- Firefox 42
Description
Mozilla developer Frédéric Wang reported an issue affecting
accessibility tools on OS X. This occurs when when an accessibility tool requests the
index of a table row through the NSAccessibilityIndexAttribute value. This
was caused by an error in how HTML tables are exposed to accessibility tools, which can
result in a potentially exploitable crash.
This issue only affects OS X systems and does not affect Windows, Linux, or Android installations.