Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2016-96
Security vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 45.6
- Announced
- December 28, 2016
- Impact
- critical
- Products
- Thunderbird
- Fixed in
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- Thunderbird 45.6
In general, these flaws cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird product because scripting is disabled when reading mail, but are potentially risks in browser or browser-like contexts.
#CVE-2016-9899: Use-after-free while manipulating DOM events and audio elements
- Reporter
- echo
- Impact
- critical
Description
Use-after-free while manipulating DOM events and removing audio elements due to errors in the handling of node adoption.
References
#CVE-2016-9895: CSP bypass using marquee tag
- Reporter
- Andrew Krasichkov
- Impact
- high
Description
Event handlers on marquee elements were executed despite a strict Content Security Policy (CSP) that disallowed inline JavaScript.
References
#CVE-2016-9897: Memory corruption in libGLES
- Reporter
- Aral
- Impact
- high
Description
Memory corruption resulting in a potentially exploitable crash during WebGL functions using a vector constructor with a varying array within libGLES.
References
#CVE-2016-9898: Use-after-free in Editor while manipulating DOM subtrees
- Reporter
- Nils
- Impact
- high
Description
Use-after-free resulting in potentially exploitable crash when manipulating DOM subtrees in the Editor.
References
#CVE-2016-9900: Restricted external resources can be loaded by SVG images through data URLs
- Reporter
- insertscript
- Impact
- high
Description
External resources that should be blocked when loaded by SVG images can bypass security restrictions through the use of data: URLs. This could allow for cross-domain data leakage.
References
#CVE-2016-9904: Cross-origin information leak in shared atoms
- Reporter
- Jann Horn
- Impact
- high
Description
An attacker could use a JavaScript Map/Set timing attack to determine whether an atom is used by another compartment/zone in specific contexts. This could be used to leak information, such as usernames embedded in JavaScript code, across websites.
References
#CVE-2016-9905: Crash in EnumerateSubDocuments
- Reporter
- Philipp
- Impact
- high
Description
A potentially exploitable crash in EnumerateSubDocuments while adding or removing sub-documents.
References
#CVE-2016-9893: Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird 45.6
- Reporter
- Mozilla developers
- Impact
- critical
Description
Mozilla developers and community members Jan de Mooij, Iris Hsiao, Christian Holler, Carsten Book, Timothy Nikkel, Christoph Diehl, Olli Pettay, Raymond Forbes, and Boris Zbarsky reported memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird 45.5. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort that some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.