Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2015-107
Out-of-bounds read during 2D canvas display on Linux 16-bit color depth systems
- Announced
- September 22, 2015
- Reporter
- Francisco Alonso
- Impact
- Moderate
- Products
- Firefox, SeaMonkey
- Fixed in
-
- Firefox 41
- SeaMonkey 2.38
Description
Security researcher Francisco Alonso of the NowSecure Research Team used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover an out-of-bounds read issue during 2D canvas rendering. This was due to an issue in the cairo graphics library when surfaces are created with 32-bit color depth but displayed on a 16-bit color depth system, which is unsupported. This allows an attacker to read an amount of random memory following the heap for the 16-bit surface leading to information disclosure.
This issue is specific to Linux in certain configurations and does not affect Windows or OS X systems.