Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2014-61
Use-after-free with FireOnStateChange event
- Announced
- July 22, 2014
- Reporter
- Jethro Beekman
- Impact
- High
- Products
- Firefox, Firefox ESR, Thunderbird
- Fixed in
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- Firefox 31
- Firefox ESR 24.7
- Thunderbird 24.7
- Thunderbird 31
Description
Security researcher Jethro Beekman of the University of
California, Berkeley reported a crash when the FireOnStateChange
event is triggered in some circumstances. This leads to a use-after-free and a
potentially exploitable crash when it occurs.
In general this flaw cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird product because scripting is disabled, but is potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts.