Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2015-46

Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:38.0 / rv:31.7)

Announced

May 12, 2015

Reporter

Mozilla Developers

Impact

Critical

Products

Firefox, Firefox ESR, Firefox OS, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird

Fixed in

• Firefox 38
• Firefox ESR 31.7
• Firefox OS 2.2
• SeaMonkey 2.35
• Thunderbird 31.7
• Thunderbird 38.0.1

Description

Mozilla developers and community identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.

In general these flaws cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird product because scripting is disabled, but are potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts.

References

Jesse Ruderman, Mats Palmgren, Byron Campen, and Steve Fink reported memory safety problems and crashes that affect Firefox ESR 31.6 and Firefox 37.

• Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 31.7 and Firefox 38. (CVE-2015-2708)

Gary Kwong, Andrew McCreight, Christian Holler, Jesse Ruderman, Mats Palmgren, Jon Coppeard, and Milan Sreckovic reported memory safety problems and crashes that affect Firefox 37.

• Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 38. (CVE-2015-2709)