Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2014-72
Use-after-free setting text directionality
- Announced
- September 2, 2014
- Reporter
- regenrecht
- Impact
- Critical
- Products
- Firefox, Firefox ESR, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird
- Fixed in
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- Firefox 32
- Firefox ESR 24.8
- Firefox ESR 31.1
- SeaMonkey 2.29
- Thunderbird 24.8
- Thunderbird 31.1
Description
Security researcher regenrecht reported, via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative, a use-after-free during text layout when interacting with the setting of text direction. This results in a use-after-free which can lead to arbitrary code execution.
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.