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Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2014-62

Exploitable WebGL crash with Cesium JavaScript library

Announced
July 22, 2014
Reporter
Patrick Cozzi
Impact
Critical
Products
Firefox, Firefox ESR, Thunderbird
Fixed in
  • Firefox 31
  • Firefox ESR 24.7
  • Thunderbird 24.7
  • Thunderbird 31

Description

Developer Patrick Cozzi reported a crash in some circumstances when using the Cesium JavaScript library to generate WebGL content. Mozilla developers determined that this crash is potentially exploitable.

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

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