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Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2014-85

XMLHttpRequest crashes with some input streams

Announced
December 2, 2014
Reporter
Joe Vennix
Impact
Moderate
Products
Firefox, Firefox ESR, Firefox OS, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird
Fixed in
  • Firefox 34
  • Firefox ESR 31.3
  • Firefox OS 2.2
  • SeaMonkey 2.31
  • Thunderbird 31.3

Description

Security researcher Joe Vennix from Rapid7 reported that passing a JavaScript object to XMLHttpRequest that mimics an input stream will a crash. This crash is not exploitable and can only be used for denial of service attacks.

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.

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