Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2015-38

Memory corruption crashes in Off Main Thread Compositing

Announced
March 31, 2015
Reporter
Abhishek Arya
Impact
Critical
Products
Firefox, Firefox OS, SeaMonkey
Fixed in
  • Firefox 37
  • Firefox OS 2.2
  • SeaMonkey 2.35

Description

Security researcher Abhishek Arya (Inferno) of the Google Chrome Security Team used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover two memory corruption crashes during 2D graphics rendering due to problems in Off Main Thread Compositing. These crashes are potentially exploitable.

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