SUSE CVE-2010-0160

The Web Worker functionality in Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x before 3.0.18 and 3.5.x before 3.5.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.3, does not properly handle array data types for posted messages, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service heap memory corruption and application crash or possibl...

Mozilla: Content Security Policy wasn't being correctly applied to WebSockets in WebWorkers

The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as: A mishandled security check when creating a WebSocket in a WebWorker caused the Content Security Policy connect-src header to be ignored. This could lead to connections to restricted origins from inside WebWorkers...

Mozilla: Web worker in Private Browsing mode can write IndexedDB data

A privacy flaw was discovered in Firefox. In Private Browsing mode, a web worker could write persistent data to IndexedDB, which was not cleared when exiting and would persist across multiple sessions. A malicious website could exploit the flaw to bypass private-browsing protections and uniquely...