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Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2014-32

Out-of-bounds write through TypedArrayObject after neutering

Announced
March 18, 2014
Reporter
George Hotz
Impact
Critical
Products
Firefox, Firefox ESR, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird
Fixed in
  • Firefox 28
  • Firefox ESR 24.4
  • SeaMonkey 2.25
  • Thunderbird 24.4

Description

Security researcher George Hotz, via TippingPoint's Pwn2Own contest, discovered an issue where values are copied from an array into a second, neutered array. This allows for an out-of-bounds write into memory, causing an exploitable crash leading to arbitrary code execution.

In general this flaw cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird and Seamonkey products because scripting is disabled, but is potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts.

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