Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2010-49

Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:1.9.2.9/ 1.9.1.12)

Announced

September 7, 2010

Reporter

Mozilla developers and community

Impact

Critical

Products

Firefox, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird

Fixed in

• Firefox 3.5.12
• Firefox 3.6.9
• SeaMonkey 2.0.7
• Thunderbird 3.0.7
• Thunderbird 3.1.3

Description

Mozilla developers identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs 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

Peter Van der Beken, Jason Oster, Jesse Ruderman, Igor Bukanov, Jeff Walden, Gary Kwong and Olli Pettay reported memory safety problems that affected Firefox 3.6 and Firefox 3.5.

• Memory safety bugs - Firefox 3.5, Firefox 3.6
• CVE-2010-3169

Also, special thanks to Michal Zalewski whose contributions helped identify two of the security bugs fixed in this release.