Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2014-46
Use-after-free in nsHostResolver
- Announced
- April 29, 2014
- Reporter
- Tyson Smith, Jesse Schwartzentruber
- Impact
- High
- Products
- Firefox, Firefox ESR, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird
- Fixed in
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- Firefox 29
- Firefox ESR 24.5
- SeaMonkey 2.26
- Thunderbird 24.5
Description
Security researchers Tyson Smith and Jesse Schwartzentruber of the BlackBerry Security Automated Analysis Team used the Address Sanitizer tool while fuzzing to discover a use-after-free during host resolution in some circumstances. This leads to a potentially exploitable crash.