Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2010-16

Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.2.2/ 1.9.1.9/ 1.9.0.19)

Announced

March 30, 2010

Reporter

Mozilla developers and community

Impact

Critical

Products

Firefox, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird

Fixed in

• Firefox 3.0.19
• Firefox 3.5.9
• Firefox 3.6.2
• SeaMonkey 2.0.4
• Thunderbird 3.0.4

Description

Mozilla developers identified and fixed several stability bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these crashes showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.

References

Martijn Wargers, Josh Soref, and Jesse Ruderman reported crashes in the browser engine that affected Firefox 3.5 and Firefox 3.6.

• Browser crashes - Firefox 3.5, Firefox 3.6
• CVE-2010-0173

Jesse Ruderman and Ehsan Akhgari reported crashes that affected all supported versions of the browser engine.

• Browser crashes - Firefox 3.0, Firefox 3.5, Firefox 3.6
• CVE-2010-0174