Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2016-50
Buffer overflow parsing HTML5 fragments
- Announced
- June 7, 2016
- Reporter
- firehack
- Impact
- Critical
- Products
- Firefox, Firefox ESR
- Fixed in
-
- Firefox 47
- Firefox ESR 45.2
Description
Security researcher firehack reported a buffer overflow when parsing
HTML5 fragments in a foreign context such as under an <svg>
node. This
results in a potentially exploitable crash when inserting an HTML fragment into an
existing document.