Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2014-15

Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:28.0 / rv:24.4)

Announced

March 18, 2014

Reporter

Mozilla Developers

Impact

Critical

Products

Firefox, Firefox ESR, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird

Fixed in

• Firefox 28
• Firefox ESR 24.4
• SeaMonkey 2.25
• Thunderbird 24.4

Description

Mozilla developers and community identified 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.

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

References

Benoit Jacob, Olli Pettay, Jan Varga, Jan de Mooij, Jesse Ruderman, Dan Gohman, and Christoph Diehl reported memory safety problems and crashes that affect Firefox ESR 24.3 and Firefox 27.

• Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 24.4 and Firefox 28.0 (CVE-2014-1493)

Gregor Wagner, Olli Pettay, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Luke Wagner, Rob Fletcher, and Makoto Kato reported memory safety problems and crashes that affect Firefox 27.

• Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 28.0 (CVE-2014-1494)