Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2013-05
Use-after-free when displaying table with many columns and column groups
- Announced
- January 8, 2013
- Reporter
- Atte Kettunen
- Impact
- Critical
- Products
- Firefox, Firefox ESR, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird, Thunderbird ESR
- Fixed in
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- Firefox 18
- Firefox ESR 10.0.12
- Firefox ESR 17.0.2
- SeaMonkey 2.15
- Thunderbird 17.0.2
- Thunderbird ESR 10.0.12
- Thunderbird ESR 17.0.2
Description
Using the Address Sanitizer tool, security researcher Atte Kettunen from OUSPG discovered that the combination of large numbers of columns and column groups in a table could cause the array containing the columns during rendering to overwrite itself. This can lead to a user-after-free causing a potentially exploitable crash.
In general these flaws cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird and SeaMonkey products because scripting is disabled, but are potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts in those products.