Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2014-68
Use-after-free during DOM interactions with SVG
- Announced
- September 2, 2014
- Reporter
- Abhishek Arya
- Impact
- Critical
- Products
- Firefox, Firefox ESR, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird
- Fixed in
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- Firefox 32
- Firefox ESR 31.1
- SeaMonkey 2.29
- Thunderbird 31.1
Description
Security researcher Abhishek Arya (Inferno) of the Google Chrome Security Team used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a use-after-free during cycle collection. This was found in interactions with the SVG content through the document object model (DOM) with animating SVG content. This leads to a potentially exploitable crash.
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.