top object and location property accessible by plugins — Mozilla

Security researcher Mariusz Mlynski reported that the location property can be accessed by binary plugins through top.location and top can be shadowed by Object.defineProperty as well. This can allow for possible cross-site scripting XSS attacks through plugins...

Continued access to initial origin after setting document.domain — Mozilla

Security researcher Collin Jackson reported a violation of the HTML5 specifications for document.domain behavior. Specified behavior requires pages to only have access to windows in a new document.domain but the observed violation allowed pages to retain access to windows from the page's initial...

Incorrect site SSL certificate data display — Mozilla

Security researcher Mark Poticha reported an issue where incorrect SSL certificate information can be displayed on the addressbar, showing the SSL data for a previous site while another has been loaded. This is caused by two onLocationChange events being fired out of the expected order, leading t...

Content Security Policy inline-script bypass — Mozilla

Security researcher Adam Barth found that inline event handlers, such as onclick, were no longer blocked by Content Security Policy's CSP inline-script blocking feature. Web applications relying on this feature of CSP to protect against cross-site scripting XSS were not fully protected...

Uninitialized memory appended when encoding icon images may cause information disclosure — Mozilla

Mozilla developer Tim Abraldes reported that when encoding images as image/vnd.microsoft.icon the resulting data was always a fixed size, with uninitialized memory appended as padding beyond the size of the actual image. This is the result of mImageBufferSize in the encoder being initialized with...

Security issues addressed in SeaMonkey 2.3 — Mozilla

Miscellaneous memory safety hazards rv:4.0 Impact: Critical Description: Mozilla identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in SeaMonkey 2.2 and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and w...

XSLT generate-id() function heap address leak — Mozilla

Chris Evans of the Chrome Security Team reported that the XSLT generate-id function returned a string that revealed a specific valid address of an object on the memory heap. It is possible that in some cases this address would be valuable information that could be used by an attacker while...

XSS in gopher parser when parsing hrefs — Mozilla

Google security researcher Robert Swiecki reported that functions used by the Gopher parser to convert text to HTML tags could be exploited to turn text into executable JavaScript. If an attacker could create a file or directory on a Gopher server with the encoded script as part of its name the...

SJOW creates scope chains ending in outer object — Mozilla

Mozilla developer Blake Kaplan reported that the wrapper class XPCSafeJSObjectWrapper SJOW, a security wrapper that allows content-defined objects to be safely accessed by privileged code, creates scope chains ending in outer objects. Users of SJOWs which expect the scope chain to end on an inner...

Integer Overflow in XSLT Node Sorting — Mozilla

Security researcher Martin Barbella reported via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative that an XSLT node sorting routine contained an integer overflow vulnerability. In cases where one of the nodes to be sorted contained a very large text value, the integer used to allocate a memory buffer to store...

Re-use of freed object due to scope confusion — Mozilla

A memory corruption flaw leading to code execution was reported by security researcher Nils of MWR InfoSecurity during the 2010 Pwn2Own contest sponsored by TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative. By moving DOM nodes between documents Nils found a case where the moved node incorrectly retained its ol...

Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.1.6/ 1.9.0.16) — Mozilla

Mozilla developers and community members identified and fixed several stability bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these crashes showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances and we presume that with enough effort at least some ...

Local downloaded file tampering — Mozilla

Security researcher Jeremy Brown reported that the file naming scheme used for downloading a file which already exists in the downloads folder is predictable. If an attacker had local access to a victim's computer and knew the name of a file the victim intended to open through the Download Manage...

Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.1.3/ 1.9.0.14) — Mozilla

Mozilla developers and community members identified and fixed several stability bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these crashes showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances and we presume that with enough effort at least some ...

Arbitrary code execution using event listeners attached to an element whose owner document is null — Mozilla

Mozilla security researcher mozbugra4 reported that the owner document of an element can become null after garbage collection. In such cases, event listeners may be executed within the wrong JavaScript context. An attacker could potentially use this vulnerability to have a malicious event handler...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 91.3 — Mozilla

The iframe sandbox rules were not correctly applied to XSLT stylesheets, allowing an iframe to bypass restrictions such as executing scripts or navigating the top-level frame. When interacting with an HTML input element's file picker dialog with webkitdirectory set, a use-after-free could have...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 78.4 — Mozilla

A use-after-free bug in the usersctp library was reported upstream. We assume this could have led to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. Mozilla developers and community members Jason Kratzer, Simon Giesecke, Philipp, and Christian Holler reported memory safety bugs present in...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 68.9.0 — Mozilla

NSS has shown timing differences when performing DSA signatures, which was exploitable and could eventually leak private keys. When browsing a malicious page, a race condition in our SharedWorkerService could occur and lead to a potentially exploitable crash. Mozilla developer Iain Ireland...

Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 60.4 — Mozilla

A buffer overflow and out-of-bounds read can occur in TextureStorage11 within the ANGLE graphics library, used for WebGL content. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. A use-after-free vulnerability can occur after deleting a selection element due to a weak reference to the select...

Location bar spoofing via data URLs with malformed/invalid mediatypes — Mozilla

Security researcher Firas Salem reported that decoding url-encoded values in data: urls for display leads to potential spoofing in the Location bar by using non-ASCII and emoji characters in a data: url's mediatype. This issue could result in the wrong URL being displayed as a location, which can...

CSP not applied to pages sent with multipart/x-mixed-replace — Mozilla

Security researcher Muneaki Nishimura nishimunea of Recruit Technologies Co., Ltd. reported that Content Security Policy CSP is not applied correctly to web content sent with the multipart/x-mixed-replace MIME type. This allows for script to run in instances where CSP should block it, leading to ...

Same-origin policy violation using performance.getEntries and history navigation with session restore — Mozilla

Security researcher Jordi Chancel discovered a variant of Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2015-136 which was fixed in Firefox 43. In the original bug, it was possible to read cross-origin URLs following a redirect if performance.getEntries was used along with an iframe to host a page...

Unsafe memory manipulation found through code inspection — Mozilla

Security researcher Ronald Crane reported three vulnerabilities affecting released code that were found through code inspection. These include a high rated memory safety issue in the ANGLE graphics library, a moderate rated potential wild pointer flaw when handling zip files, and a critical rated...

Integer overflow in MP4 playback in 64-bit versions — Mozilla

Security researcher Ronald Crane reported a vulnerability found through code inspection. This issue is an integer overflow while processing an MP4 format video file when an a erroneously-small buffer is allocated and then overrun, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash...

Buffer overflows found through code inspection — Mozilla

Security researcher Ronald Crane reported three buffer overflows affecting released code that were found through code inspection. They do not all have clear mechanisms to be exploited through web content but are vulnerable if a mechanism can be found to trigger them...

Arbitrary file manipulation by local user through Mozilla updater — Mozilla

Security researcher Holger Fuhrmannek reported that when the Mozilla updater is run, the updater can be manipulated to load the updated files from a working directory under user control in concert with junctions. When the updates are run by the Mozilla Maintenance Service on Windows, these...

Memory corruption crashes in Off Main Thread Compositing — Mozilla

Security researcher Abhishek Arya Inferno of the Google Chrome Security Team used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover two memory corruption crashes during 2D graphics rendering due to problems in Off Main Thread Compositing. These crashes are potentially exploitable...

Use-after-free in Developer Console date with OpenType Sanitiser — Mozilla

Using the Address Sanitizer tool, security researcher Atte Kettunen found a problem with OpenType Sanitiser OTS that resulted in a use-after-free while expanding macros in some circumstances. This use-after-free was only used for information displayed in the developer console and was not...

Reading of local files through manipulation of form autocomplete — Mozilla

Security researcher Armin Ebert reported that a user readable file in a known local path could be uploaded to a malicious site. This was done by manipulating the autocomplete feature in a form and user interaction with it. While the local file is not visibly uploaded through the form, its content...

Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:34.0 / rv:31.3) — Mozilla

Mozilla developers and community identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least some of the...

XMLHttpRequest crashes with some input streams — Mozilla

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...

Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:33.0 / rv:31.2) — Mozilla

Mozilla developers and community identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least some of the...

Use-after-free and out of bounds issues found using Address Sanitizer — Mozilla

Security researcher Abhishek Arya Inferno of the Google Chrome Security Team discovered a number of use-after-free and out of bounds read issues using the Address Sanitizer tool. These issues are potentially exploitable, allowing for remote code execution...

Firefox for Android addressbar suppression — Mozilla

Security researcher Juho Nurminen reported that on Firefox for Android, when the addressbar has been scrolled off screen, an attacker can prevent it from rendering again through the use of script interacting DOM events. This allows an attacker to present a fake addressbar to the user, possibly...

Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:29.0 / rv:24.5) — Mozilla

Mozilla developers and community identified identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least...

Local file access via Open Link in new tab — Mozilla

Security researcher Alex Inführ reported that on Firefox for Android it is possible to open links to local files from web content by selecting "Open Link in New Tab" from the context menu using the file: protocol. The web content would have to know the precise location of a malicious local file i...

XSLT stylesheets treated as styles in Content Security Policy — Mozilla

Mozilla security engineer Frederik Braun reported an issue where the implementation of Content Security Policy CSP is not in compliance with the specification. XSLT stylesheets must be subject to script-src directives but Mozilla's implementation of CSP treats them as styles. This could lead to...

Security bypass of PDF.js checks using iframes — Mozilla

Security researcher Cody Crews discovered a method to append an iframe into an embedded PDF object rendered with the chrome privileged PDF.js. This can used to bypass security restrictions to load local or chrome privileged files and objects within the embedded PDF object. This can lead to...

Buffer overflow in Mozilla Maintenance Service and Mozilla Updater — Mozilla

Security researcher Seb Patane reported stack buffer overflows in both the Maintenance Service and the Mozilla Updater when unexpectedly long paths were encountered. A local attacker could pass these as command-line arguments to the Maintenance Service to crash either program and potentially lead...

Further Privilege escalation through Mozilla Updater — Mozilla

Security researcher Ash reported an issue with the Mozilla Updater on Windows 7 and later versions of Windows. On vulnerable platforms, the Mozilla Updater can be made to load a specific malicious DLL file from the local system. This DLL file can run in a privileged context through the Mozilla...

PreserveWrapper has inconsistent behavior — Mozilla

Mozilla developer Boris Zbarsky found that when PreserveWrapper was used in cases where a wrapper is not set, the preserved-wrapper flag on the wrapper cache is cleared. This could potentially lead to an exploitable crash...

Sandbox restrictions not applied to nested frame elements — Mozilla

Mozilla community member Bob Owen reported that restrictions are not applied to a frame element contained within a sandboxed iframe. As a result, content hosted within a sandboxed iframe could use a frame element to bypass the restrictions that should be applied...

Inaccessible updater can lead to local privilege escalation — Mozilla

Security researcher Seb Patane reported an issue with the Mozilla Maintenance Service on Windows. He discovered that when the Mozilla Updater executable was inaccessible, the Maintenance Service will behave incorrectly and can be made to use an updater at an arbitrary location. This updater will...

Out-of-bounds array read in CERT_DecodeCertPackage — Mozilla

Mozilla community member Ambroz Bizjak reported an out-of-bounds array read in the CERTDecodeCertPackage function of the Network Security Services NSS library when decoding a certificate. When this occurs, it will lead to memory corruption and a non-exploitable crash...

Use-after-free in HTML Editor — Mozilla

VUPEN Security, via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative, reported a use-after-free within the HTML editor when content script is run by the document.execCommand function while internal editor operations are occurring. This could allow for arbitrary code execution...

Crash due to handling of SSL on threads — Mozilla

Mozilla community member Jerry Baker reported a crashing issue found through Thunderbird when downloading messages over a Secure Sockets Layer SSL connection. This was caused by a bug in the networking code assuming that secure connections were entirely handled on the socket transport thread when...

Memory corruption in str_unescape — Mozilla

Security researcher Scott Bell of Security-Assessment.com used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a memory corruption in strunescape in the Javascript engine. This could potentially lead to arbitrary code execution...

DOMParser loads linked resources in extensions when parsing text/html — Mozilla

Security researcher vsemozhetbyt reported that when the DOMParser is used to parse text/html data in a Firefox extension, linked resources within this HTML data will be loaded. If the data being parsed in the extension is untrusted, it could lead to information leakage and can potentially be...

use-after-free in IDBKeyRange — Mozilla

Using the Address Sanitizer tool, security researcher Aki Helin from OUSPG found that IDBKeyRange of indexedDB remains in the XPConnect hashtable instead of being unlinked before being destroyed. When it is destroyed, this causes a use-after-free, which is potentially exploitable...

window.fullScreen writeable by untrusted content — Mozilla

Mozilla developer Matt Brubeck reported that window.fullScreen is writeable by untrusted content now that the DOM fullscreen API is enabled. Because window.fullScreen does not include mozRequestFullscreen's security protections, it could be used for UI spoofing. This code change makes...