Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2016-27
Use-after-free during XML transformations
- Announced
- March 8, 2016
- Reporter
- Nicolas Grégoire
- Impact
- Critical
- Products
- Firefox, Firefox ESR, Thunderbird
- Fixed in
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- Firefox 45
- Firefox ESR 38.7
- Thunderbird 38.7
- Thunderbird 45
Description
Security researcher Nicolas Grégoire used the Address Sanitizer to find a use-after-free during XML transformation operations. This results in a potentially exploitable crash triggerable by web content.
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.