Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2014-79
Use-after-free interacting with text directionality
- Announced
- October 14, 2014
- Reporter
- regenrecht
- Impact
- Critical
- Products
- Firefox, Firefox ESR, Firefox OS, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird
- Fixed in
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- Firefox 33
- Firefox ESR 31.2
- Firefox OS 2.2
- SeaMonkey 2.30
- Thunderbird 31.2
Description
Security researcher regenrecht reported, via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative, a use-after-free during text layout when interacting with text direction. This results in a crash 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.