Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2009-13
Arbitrary code execution via XUL tree element
- Announced
- March 27, 2009
- Reporter
- Nils
- Impact
- Critical
- Products
- Firefox
- Fixed in
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- Firefox 3.0.8
Description
Security researcher Nils reported via
TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative that the XUL tree
method _moveToEdgeShift was in some cases triggering
garbage collection routines on objects which were still in use. In
such cases, the browser would crash when attempting to access a
previously destroyed object and this crash could be used by an
attacker to run arbitrary code on a victim's computer.
This vulnerability was used by the reporter to win the 2009 CanSecWest Pwn2Own contest.
This vulnerability does not affect Firefox 2, Thunderbird 2, or released versions of SeaMonkey.