Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2016-88
Security vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 45.4
- Announced
- October 3, 2016
- Impact
- critical
- Products
- Thunderbird
- Fixed in
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- Thunderbird 45.4
In general, these flaws cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird product because scripting is disabled when reading mail, but are potentially risks in browser or browser-like contexts.
#CVE-2016-5270: Heap-buffer-overflow in nsCaseTransformTextRunFactory::TransformString
- Reporter
- Atte Kettunen
- Impact
- high
Description
An out-of-bounds write of a boolean value during text conversion with some unicode characters.
References
#CVE-2016-5272: Bad cast in nsImageGeometryMixin
- Reporter
- Abhishek Arya
- Impact
- high
Description
A bad cast when processing layout with input elements can result in a potentially exploitable crash.
References
#CVE-2016-5276: Heap-use-after-free in mozilla::a11y::DocAccessible::ProcessInvalidationList
- Reporter
- Nils
- Impact
- high
Description
A use-after-free vulnerability triggered by setting a aria-owns attribute
References
#CVE-2016-5274: use-after-free in nsFrameManager::CaptureFrameState
- Reporter
- Nils
- Impact
- high
Description
A use-after-free issue in web animations during restyling.
References
#CVE-2016-5277: Heap-use-after-free in nsRefreshDriver::Tick
- Reporter
- Nils
- Impact
- high
Description
A use-after-free vulnerability with web animations when destroying a timeline
References
#CVE-2016-5278: Heap-buffer-overflow in nsBMPEncoder::AddImageFrame
- Reporter
- Nils
- Impact
- critical
Description
A potentially exploitable crash caused by a buffer overflow while encoding image frames to images
References
#CVE-2016-5280: Use-after-free in mozilla::nsTextNodeDirectionalityMap::RemoveElementFromMap
- Reporter
- Mei Wang
- Impact
- high
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability when changing text direction
References
#CVE-2016-5281: use-after-free in DOMSVGLength
- Reporter
- Brian Carpenter
- Impact
- high
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability when manipulating SVG format content through script
References
#CVE-2016-5284: Add-on update site certificate pin expiration
- Reporter
- Multiple people
- Impact
- high
Description
Due to flaws in the process we used to update "Preloaded Public Key Pinning" in our releases, the pinning for add-on updates became ineffective in early September. An attacker who was able to get a mis-issued certificate for a Mozilla web site could send malicious add-on updates to users on networks controlled by the attacker. Users who have not installed any add-ons are not affected.
References
#CVE-2016-5250: Resource Timing API is storing resources sent by the previous page
- Reporter
- Catalin Dumitru
- Impact
- moderate
Description
URLs of resources loaded after a navigation started can leak to the following page through the Resource Timing API, leading to potential information disclosure.
References
#CVE-2016-5257: Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird 45.4
- Reporter
- Mozilla developers
- Impact
- critical
Description
Mozilla developers and community members Christoph Diehl, Andrew McCreight, Dan Minor, Byron Campen, Jon Coppeard, Steve Fink, Tyson Smith, Philipp, and Carsten Book reported memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird ESR 45.3. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.