Buffer overflow

A buffer overflow will occur when viewing a certificate in the certificate manager if the certificate has an extremely long object identifier OID. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 52.3, Firefox ESR 52.3, and Firefox 55...

Design/Logic Flaw

A use-after-free vulnerability can occur while re-computing layout for a "marquee" element during window resizing where the updated style object is freed while still in use. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 52.3, Firefox ESR 52.3, and Firefox...

Design/Logic Flaw

When Private Browsing mode is used, it is possible for a web worker to write persistent data to IndexedDB and fingerprint a user uniquely. IndexedDB should not be available in Private Browsing mode and this stored data will persist across multiple private browsing mode sessions because it is not...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Mozilla Maintenance Service "helper.exe" application creates a temporary directory writable by non-privileged users. When this is combined with creation of a junction a form of symbolic link, protected files in the target directory of the junction can be deleted by the Mozilla Maintenance...

Design/Logic Flaw

An existing mitigation of timing side-channel attacks is insufficient in some circumstances. This issue is addressed in Network Security Services NSS 3.26.1. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 45.5, Firefox ESR 45.5, and Firefox 50...

Design/Logic Flaw

A use-after-free vulnerability in the Media Decoder when working with media files when some events are fired after the media elements are freed from memory. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 45.7, Firefox ESR 45.7, and Firefox 51...

Double free

Use-after-free while manipulating XSL in XSLT documents. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 45.7, Firefox ESR 45.7, and Firefox 51...

Integer overflow

An integer overflow in "createImageBitmap" was reported through the Pwn2Own contest. The fix for this vulnerability disables the experimental extensions to the "createImageBitmap" API. This function runs in the content sandbox, requiring a second vulnerability to compromise a user's computer. Thi...

Design/Logic Flaw

A use-after-free vulnerability in frame selection triggered by a combination of malicious script content and key presses by a user. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 52.1, Firefox ESR 45.9, Firefox ESR 52.1, and Firefox 53...

Code injection

A possibly exploitable crash triggered during layout and manipulation of bidirectional unicode text in concert with CSS animations. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 52.1, Firefox ESR 52.1, and Firefox 53...

Design/Logic Flaw

An out-of-bounds read during the processing of glyph widths during text layout. This results in a potentially exploitable crash and could allow an attacker to read otherwise inaccessible memory. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 52.1, Firefox ESR 45.9, Firefox ESR 52.1, and Firefox 53...

Design/Logic Flaw

A mechanism to bypass file system access protections in the sandbox to use the file picker to access different files than those selected in the file picker through the use of relative paths. This allows for read only access to the local file system. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 52.1,...

Design/Logic Flaw

HTML tags received from the Pocket server will be processed without sanitization and any JavaScript code executed will be run in the "about:pocket-saved" unprivileged page, giving it access to Pocket's messaging API through HTML injection. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR 45.6 and Firefox...

CVE-2016-5291

A same-origin policy bypass with local shortcut files to load arbitrary local content from disk. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 45.5, Firefox ESR 45.5, and Firefox 50...

CVE-2016-5293

When the Mozilla Updater is run, if the Updater's log file in the working directory points to a hardlink, data can be appended to an arbitrary local file. This vulnerability requires local system access. Note: this issue only affects Windows operating systems. This vulnerability affects Firefox E...

CVE-2016-5296

A heap-buffer-overflow in Cairo when processing SVG content caused by compiler optimization, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 45.5, Firefox ESR 45.5, and Firefox 50...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5291

A same-origin policy bypass with local shortcut files to load arbitrary local content from disk. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 45.5, Firefox ESR 45.5, and Firefox 50...

CVE-2016-5294

The Mozilla Updater can be made to choose an arbitrary target working directory for output files resulting from the update process. This vulnerability requires local system access. Note: this issue only affects Windows operating systems. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 45.5, Firefox ESR...

CVE-2016-5296

A heap-buffer-overflow in Cairo when processing SVG content caused by compiler optimization, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 45.5, Firefox ESR 45.5, and Firefox 50...

Code injection

Add-on updates failed to verify that the add-on ID inside the signed package matched the ID of the add-on being updated. An attacker who could perform a man-in-the-middle attack on the user's connection to the update server and defeat the certificate pinning protection could provide a malicious...