Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2015-54
Buffer overflow when parsing compressed XML
- Announced
- May 12, 2015
- Reporter
- Ucha Gobejishvili
- Impact
- Critical
- Products
- Firefox, Firefox ESR, Firefox OS, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird
- Fixed in
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- Firefox 38
- Firefox ESR 31.7
- Firefox OS 2.2
- SeaMonkey 2.35
- Thunderbird 31.7
- Thunderbird 38.0.1
Description
Security researcher Ucha Gobejishvili used the Address Sanitizer tool to find a buffer overflow while parsing compressed XML content. This was due to an error in how buffer space is created and modified when handling large amounts of XML data. This results in 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.