Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2016-03
Buffer overflow in WebGL after out of memory allocation
- Announced
- January 26, 2016
- Reporter
- Aki Helin
- Impact
- Critical
- Products
- Firefox, Firefox ESR, Thunderbird
- Fixed in
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- Firefox 44
- Firefox ESR 38.6
- Thunderbird 38.6
Description
Security researcher Aki Helin used the Address Sanitizer tool to find a buffer overflow write when rendering some WebGL content. This leads to a potentially exploitable crash.
In general this flaw cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird product, but is potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts.