Sensitive URL encoded information written to Android logcat — Mozilla

Security researcher Muneaki Nishimura reported that Firefox for Android would write potentially sensitive data to the Android logcat that was encoded as part of logged URL strings. On Android 4.0 or earlier systems, logcat data is available to any application having READLOGS permission, leading t...

Calling scope for new Javascript objects can lead to memory corruption — Mozilla

Mozilla community member Ms2ger found a mechanism where a new Javascript object with a compartment is uninitialized could be entered through web content. When the scope for this object is called, it leads to a potentially exploitable crash...

loadSubScript unwraps XPCNativeWrapper scope parameter (1.9.2 branch) — Mozilla

Mozilla security researcher mozbugra4 reported that the problem described in MFSA 2011-43 and fixed in Firefox 7 also affected Firefox 3.6: a malicious page could potentially exploit a Firefox user who had installed an add-on that used loadSubscript in vulnerable ways...

Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:1.9.2.9/ 1.9.1.12) — Mozilla

Mozilla developers 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 these could be...

Asynchronous Auth Prompt attaches to wrong window — Mozilla

Mozilla developer Justin Dolske reported that the new asynchronous Authorization Prompt HTTP username and password was not always attached to the correct window. Although we have not demonstrated this, it may be possible for a malicious page to convince a user to open a new tab or popup to a...

WOFF heap corruption due to integer overflow — Mozilla

Security researcher Evgeny Legerov of Intevydis reported that the WOFF decoder contains an integer overflow in a font decompression routine. This flaw could result in too small a memory buffer being allocated to store a downloadable font. An attacker could use this vulnerability to crash a victim...

Race condition while accessing the private data of a NPObject JS wrapper class object — Mozilla

Jakob Balle and Carsten Eiram of Secunia Research reported a race condition in NPObjWrapperNewResolve when accessing the properties of a NPObject, a wrapped JSObject. Balle and Eiram demonstrated that this condition could be reached by navigating away from a web page during the loading of a Java...

XSS vulnerabilities in SessionStore — Mozilla

Mozilla security researcher mozbugra4 reported vulnerabilities in the session-restore feature by which content could be injected into an incorrect document storage location, including storage locations for other domains. An attacker could utilize these issues to violate the browser's same-origin...

Image stealing via canvas and HTTP redirect — Mozilla

Mozilla developer Georgi Guninski reported that the canvas element could be used in conjunction with an HTTP redirect to bypass same-origin restrictions and gain access to the content in arbitrary images from other domains. This vulnerability could be used by an attacker to steal private...

Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.1.15) — Mozilla

Mozilla developers 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 of these could be...

Possible information disclosure in BMP decoder — Mozilla

Security researcher Gynvael Coldwind of Vexillium crediting help from udevd and porneL demonstrated that BMP images could be used to reveal small chunks of uninitialized memory that might contain sensitive data from other pages or other programs, and that this data could be extracted from the ima...

Privilege escalation through chrome-loaded about:blank windows — Mozilla

Mozilla researcher mozbugra4 reported that a flaw was introduced by the fix for MFSA 2007-20 that could enable privilege escalation attacks against addons that create "about:blank" windows and populate them in certain ways including implicit "about:blank" document creation through data: or...

onUnload + document.write() memory corruption — Mozilla

Michal Zalewski reported a memory corruption vulnerability in Firefox 2.0.0.1 involving mixing the onUnload event handler and self-modifying document.write calls. This flaw was introduced in Firefox 2.0.0.1 and 1.5.0.9 and does not affect earlier versions; it is fixed in Firefox 2.0.0.2 and 1.5.0...

RSS Feed-preview referrer leak — Mozilla

Jared Breland reported on LEGROOM.net that when the new "Feed Preview" feature in Firefox 2.0 retrieves the icons of the installed web-based feed viewers it is potentially informing those services of your feed-browsing habits by sending the URL of the feed in a referrer header with each icon...

Concurrency-related vulnerability — Mozilla

Jonathan Watt and Michal Zalewski independently reported timing dependent testcases that trigger crashes at the same place during text display. We have seen no demonstration that these crashes could be reliably exploited, but they do show evidence of memory corruption so we presume they could be...

JavaScript execution in mail when forwarding in-line — Mozilla

Georgi Guninski reports that forwarding mail in-line while using the default HTML "rich mail" editor will execute JavaScript embedded in the e-mail message. Forwarding mail in-line is not the default setting but it is easily accessed through the "Forward As" menu item...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 115.35 — Mozilla

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox ESR 115.34, Firefox ESR 140.9, Thunderbird ESR 140.9, Firefox 149 and Thunderbird 149. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 140.2 — Mozilla

An attacker was able to perform memory corruption in the GMP process which processes encrypted media. This process is also heavily sandboxed, but represents slightly different privileges from the content process. Same-origin policy bypass in the Graphics: Canvas2D component. Uninitialized memory ...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird ESR 128.8 — Mozilla

Certain crafted MIME email messages that claimed to contain an encrypted OpenPGP message, which instead contained an OpenPGP signed message, were wrongly shown as being encrypted. When requesting an OpenPGP key from a WKD server, an incorrect padding size was used and a network observer could hav...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox for iOS 131.2 — Mozilla

Opening an external link to an HTTP website when Firefox iOS was previously closed and had an HTTPS tab open could in some cases result in the padlock icon showing an HTTPS indicator incorrectly...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 115.15 — Mozilla

A potentially exploitable type confusion could be triggered when looking up a property name on an object being used as the with environment. Internal browser event interfaces were exposed to web content when privileged EventHandler listener callbacks ran for those events. Web content that tried t...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 128 — Mozilla

An error in the ECMA-262 specification relating to Async Generators could have resulted in a type confusion, potentially leading to memory corruption and an exploitable crash. Clipboard code failed to check the index on an array access. This could have led to an out-of-bounds read. It was possibl...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox for iOS 28 — Mozilla

A rogue webpage could override the injected WKUserScript used by the download feature, this exploit could result in the user downloading an unintended file. A rogue webpage could override the injected WKUserScript used by the logins autofill, this exploit could result in leaking a password for th...

Use-after-free and buffer overflow in Service Workers — Mozilla

Security researcher Looben Yang reported two issues discovered in Service Workers using Address Sanitizer...

Firefox allows for control characters to be set in cookies — Mozilla

Security researcher musicDespiteEverything reported an issue when ASCII code 11 for vertical tab is stored in a cookie in violation of RFC6265. This may result in incorrect cookie handling by servers, resulting in the potential ability to set cookie values and read cookie data from users in conce...

Memory corruption in libjar through zip files — Mozilla

Security researcher Gustavo Grieco reported a buffer underflow in libjar triggered through a maliciously crafted ZIP format file. This results in a potentially exploitable crash...

OS X crash reports may contain entered key press information — Mozilla

Mozilla developer David Parks discovered while reviewing Firefox crash reports that personal data can sometimes be contained in reports from OS X systems. This is because these OS X crash reports will contain the native key that triggered the crash and this can sometimes contain key press...

Out-of-bounds write in Cairo — Mozilla

Security researcher Jukka Jylänki reported a crash in the the Cairo graphics library. This happens when Cairo paints out-of-bounds to the destination buffer in the compositing function when working with canvas in certain circumstances. This issue allows malicious web content to cause a potentiall...

XrayWrappers exposes chrome-only properties when not in chrome compartment — Mozilla

Mozilla developer Peter Van der Beken discovered that same-origin XrayWrappers expose chrome-only properties even when not in a chrome compartment. This can allow web content to get properties of DOM objects that are intended to be chrome-only...

Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:9.0) — Mozilla

Mozilla developers 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 these could be...

Chrome privilege escalation with window.open and <isindex> element — Mozilla

Security researcher echo reported that a web page could open a window with an about:blank location and then inject an element into that page which upon submission would redirect to a chrome: document. The effect of this defect was that the original page would wind up with a reference to a...

Chrome privilege escalation via forced URL drag and drop — Mozilla

Security researcher Paul Stone reported that a browser applet could be used to turn a simple mouse click into a drag-and-drop action, potentially resulting in the unintended loading of resources in a user's browser. This behavior could be used twice in succession to first load a privileged chrome...

XSS via plugins and unprotected Location object — Mozilla

Mozilla developer Blake Kaplan reported that the window.location object was made a normal overridable JavaScript object in the Firefox 3.6 browser engine Gecko 1.9.2 because new mechanisms were developed to enforce the same-origin policy between windows and frames. This object is unfortunately al...

Content policy bypass with image preloading — Mozilla

Mozilla developer Josh Soref of Nokia reported that documents failed to call certain security checks when attempting to preload images. Although the image content is not available to the page, it is possible to specify protocols that are normally not allowed in a web page such as file:. This...

Multiple cross origin wrapper bypasses — Mozilla

Mozilla security researcher mozbugra4 reported a series of vulnerabilities in which objects that normally receive a XPCCrossOriginWrapper are constructed without the wrapper. This can lead to cases where JavaScript from one website may unsafely access properties of such an object which had been s...

Local file stealing with SessionStore — Mozilla

Mozilla security researcher mozbugra4 reported that a form input control's type could be changed during the restoration of a closed tab. An attacker could set an input control's text value to the path of a local file whose location was known to the attacker. If the tab was then closed and the...

Cross-domain data theft via script redirect error message — Mozilla

Google security researcher Chris Evans reported that a website could access a limited amount of data from a different domain by loading a same-domain JavaScript URL which redirects to an off-domain target resource containing data which is not parsable as JavaScript. Upon attempting to load the da...

Escaped null characters ignored by CSS parser — Mozilla

Kojima Hajime reported that unlike literal null characters which were handled correctly, the escaped form '\0' was ignored by the CSS parser and treated as if it was not present in the CSS input string. This issue could potentially be used to bypass script sanitization routines in web application...

Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.1.5) — Mozilla

As part of the Firefox 2.0.0.5 update releases Mozilla developers fixed many bugs to improve the stability of the product. Some of these crashes that showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited t...

Popup-blocker cross-site scripting (XSS) — Mozilla

shutdown demonstrated that blocked popups opened from the status bar "blocked popups" icon were always opened in the context of the site listed in the Location address bar, even if the blocked popup were originally opened by a subframe loaded from another site. This allows the popup to perform a...

Frame spoofing using document.open() — Mozilla

shutdown demonstrated a way to inject content into a sub-frame of another site using targetWindow.framesn.document.open, making the attackers content look like it was part of the victim site. Similar in effect to MFSA 2005-51...

Privilege escalation using named-functions and redefined "new Object()" — Mozilla

mozbugra4 discovered that named JavaScript functions have a parent object created using the standard Object constructor ECMA-specified behavior and that this constructor can be redefined by script also ECMA-specified behavior. If the Object constructor is changed to return a reference to a...

Heap buffer overwrite on malformed VCard — Mozilla

A VCard attachment with a malformed base64 field such as a photo can trigger a heap buffer overwrite. These have proven exploitable in the past, though in this case the overwrite is accompanied by an integer underflow that would attempt to copy more data than the typical machine has, leading to a...

Fixes for crashes with potential memory corruption (rv:1.8.0.4) — Mozilla

Mozilla team members discovered several crashes during testing of the browser engine showing evidence of memory corruption that we presume is exploitable...

Privilege escalation using addSelectionListener — Mozilla

Web content could access the nsISelectionPrivate interface of the Selection object and use it to add a SelectionListener. The listener would be called when the user did a "Find" on the page or a "select all", and as intended this shouldn't cause any problems. But as with escaping the PAC sandbox ...

File stealing by changing input type (variant) — Mozilla

Chuck McAuley provided Proof-of-Concept code that demonstrates that MFSA 2006-23 was not fixed for all cases. In Firefox 1.5.0.2 it is still possible to pre-fill a text input control with the path to a file at a known location and then change the type of the input control to a file upload control...

CSS Letter-Spacing Heap Overflow Vulnerability — Mozilla

An anonymous researcher for TippingPoint and the Zero Day Initiative discovered an integer overflow triggered by the CSS letter-spacing property. This results in in under-allocating memory and ultimately a heap buffer overflow which could be exploited to run code of the attacker's choice...

Cross-site scripting using .valueOf.call() — Mozilla

mozbugra4 discovered that .valueOf.call and .valueOf.apply when called with no arguments were returning the Object class prototype rather than the caller's global window object. When called on a reachable property of another window this provides a hook to get around the same-origin protection,...

Window Injection Spoofing — Mozilla

A website can inject content into a popup opened by another site if the target name of the popup window is known. An attacker who knows you are going to visit that other site could spoof the contents of the popup...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 140.9.1 — Mozilla

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox ESR 115.34.0, Firefox ESR 140.9.0, Thunderbird ESR 140.9.0, Firefox 149.0.1 and Thunderbird 149.0.1. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code...