Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2015-123
Buffer overflow during image interactions in canvas
- Announced
- November 3, 2015
- Reporter
- Looben Yang
- Impact
- High
- Products
- Firefox, Firefox ESR, Thunderbird
- Fixed in
-
- Firefox 42
- Firefox ESR 38.4
- Thunderbird 38.4
Description
Security researcher Looben Yang reported a buffer overflow in the
JPEGEncoder function during script interactions with a canvas
element. This is caused by a race condition and incorrectly matched sizes following image
interactions. 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.