Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 133 — Mozilla

Certain WebGL operations on Apple silicon M series devices could have lead to an out-of-bounds write and memory corruption due to a flaw in Apple's GPU driver. This bug only affected the application on Apple M series hardware. Other platforms were unaffected. Malicious websites may have been able...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 128.2 — Mozilla

When aborting the verification of an OTR chat session, an attacker could have caused a use-after-free bug leading to a potentially exploitable crash. A difference in the handling of StructFields and ArrayTypes in WASM could be used to trigger an exploitable type confusion vulnerability. A...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 115.13 — 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. Due to large allocation checks in Angle for GLSL shaders being too lenient an out-of-bounds access could occur when...

Insecure Proxy Configuration in Hubs Cloud Reticulum — Mozilla

Proxy functionality built into Hubs Cloud’s Reticulum software allowed access to internal URLs, including the metadata service...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox for iOS 27 — Mozilla

IndexedDB should be cleared when leaving private browsing mode and it is not, the API for WKWebViewConfiguration was being used incorrectly and requires the private instance of this object be deleted when leaving private mode...

Reader Mode pages have chrome privileges — Mozilla

Security researcher Warren He reported that when a page is transitioned into Reader Mode in Firefox for Android, the resulting page has chrome privileges and its content is not thoroughly sanitized. A successful attack requires user enabling of reader mode for a malicious page, which could then...

Scriptable plugin execution in SeaMonkey mail — Mozilla

Security researcher Georgi Guninski reported that scriptable plugin content, such as Flash objects, could be loaded and executed in SeaMonkey mail messages by embedding the content in an iframe inside the message. If a user were to reply to or forward such a message, malicious JavaScript embedded...

URL spoofing with invalid unicode characters — Mozilla

Mozilla add-on developer Pavel Cvrcek reported that certain invalid unicode characters, when used as part of an IDN, are displayed as whitespace in the location bar. This whitespace could be used to force part of the URL out of view in the location bar. An attacker could use this vulnerability to...

Malicious search plugins can inject code into arbitrary sites — Mozilla

Security researcher Prateek Saxena reported that a malicious MozSearch plugin could be created using a javascript: URI in the SearchForm value. This URI is used as the default landing page when an empty search is performed. If an attacker could get a user to install the malicious plugin and perfo...

Arbitrary code execution via XUL tree element — Mozilla

Security researcher Nils reported via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative that the XUL tree method moveToEdgeShift was in some cases triggering garbage collection routines on objects which were still in use. In such cases, the browser would crash when attempting to access a previously destroyed...

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...

Additional XSS attack vectors in feed preview — Mozilla

Mozilla security researcher mozbugra4 reported an additional variation on the feed preview vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 2.0.0.17. mozbugra4 demonstrated that it was still possible to use the feed preview as a vector for JavaScript privilege escalation. An attacker could use this issue to run...

Signed JAR tampering — Mozilla

Security researchers Collin Jackson and Adam Barth reported a series of vulnerabilities which allow JavaScript to be injected into the context of signed JARs and executed under the context of the JAR's signer. This could allow an attacker to run JavaScript in a victim's browser with the privilege...

URL token stealing via stylesheet redirect — Mozilla

Security researcher Martin Straka reported that Gecko-based browsers update the .href property of stylesheet DOM nodes to reflect the final URI of the stylesheet after following any 302 redirects much as the document.location property is updated. This differs from other browsers and could...

onUnload Tailgating — Mozilla

Michal Zalewski demonstrated that onUnload event handlers had access to the address of the new page about to be loaded, even if the navigation was triggered from outside the page content such as by using a bookmark, pressing the back button, or typing an address into the location bar. If the...

Unauthorized access to wyciwyg:// documents — Mozilla

Michal Zalewski reported that it was possible to bypass the same-origin checks and read from cached wyciwyg documents. It is possible to access wyciwyg:// documents without proper same domain policy checks through the use of HTTP 302 redirects. This enables the attacker to steal sensitive data...

XUL Popup Spoofing — Mozilla

Chris Thomas demonstrated that XUL popups opened by web content could be placed outside the boundaries of the content area. This could be used to spoof or hide parts of the browser chrome such as the location bar...

RSA Signature Forgery (variant) — Mozilla

MFSA 2006-60 reported that RSA digital signatures with a low exponent typically 3 could be forged. This flaw was corrected in the Mozilla Network Security Services NSS library version 3.11.3 used by Firefox 2.0 and current development versions of Mozilla clients...

JavaScript execution in mail via XBL — Mozilla

Georgi Guninski demonstrated that even with JavaScript disabled in mail the default an attacker can still execute JavaScript when a mail message is viewed, replied to, or forwarded by putting the script in a remote XBL file loaded by the message. The executed script could be used to alter or chan...

JavaScript Regular Expression Heap Corruption — Mozilla

Priit Laes reported a crash due to a heap buffer overflow triggered by a JavaScript regular expression containing a minimal quantifier. We presume this could be exploited to run arbitrary code...

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 ...

HTTP response smuggling — Mozilla

Kazuho Oku of Cybozu Labs reports via the Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan, that Firefox is vulnerable to HTTP response smuggling when used with certain proxy servers...

Deleted object reference when designMode="on" — Mozilla

Martijn Wargers and Nick Mott each described crashes that were discovered to ultimately stem from the same root cause: attempting to use a deleted controller context when designMode was turned on. This generally results in crashing the browser, but in theory references to deleted objects can be...

Integer overflows in E4X, SVG, and Canvas — Mozilla

Georgi Guninski reports integer overflows in the new E4X, SVG, and Canvas features. These lead to memory corruption that is potentially exploitable to run arbitrary code...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox for iOS 151.1 — Mozilla

Firefox for iOS displayed specially crafted right-to-left RTL and internationalized domain names IDNs incorrectly in link preview UI surfaces. A crafted RTL hostname could visually reorder portions of the displayed domain, causing attacker-controlled sites to appear as trusted origins...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 135 — Mozilla

An attacker could have caused a use-after-free via crafted XSLT data, leading to a potentially exploitable crash. An attacker could have caused a use-after-free via the Custom Highlight API, leading to a potentially exploitable crash. The fullscreen notification is prematurely hidden when...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 133 — Mozilla

Certain WebGL operations on Apple silicon M series devices could have lead to an out-of-bounds write and memory corruption due to a flaw in Apple's GPU driver. This bug only affected the application on Apple M series hardware. Other platforms were unaffected. Malicious websites may have been able...

Reading sensitive profile files through local HTML file on Android — Mozilla

Security researcher Jordi Chancel reported an issue in Firefox for Android where a locally saved HTML file could use file: URIs to trigger the download of additional files or opening of cached profile data without user awareness...

JavaScript immutable property enforcement can be bypassed — Mozilla

Mozilla developer Jeff Walden reported that in Gecko's implementation of ECMAScript 5 API's enforces non-configurable properties with logic specific to each API. Scripts that do not go through these APIs can bypass these protections and make changes to the immutable properties in violation of...

Information stealing via form history — Mozilla

Security researcher Paul Stone reported that a Java applet could be used to mimic interaction with form autocomplete controls and steal entries from the form history...

Buffer overflow in JavaScript atom map — Mozilla

Security researcher Christian Holler reported that the JavaScript engine's internal mapping of string values contained an error in cases where the number of values being stored was above 64K. In such cases an offset pointer was manually moved forwards and backwards to access the larger address...

Memory corruption during text run construction (Windows) — Mozilla

Alex Miller reported that when very long strings were constructed and inserted into an HTML document, the browser would incorrectly construct the layout objects used to display the text. Under such conditions an incorrect length would be calculated for a text run resulting in too small of a memor...

Buffer overflow while line breaking after document.write with long string — Mozilla

Dirk Heinrich reported that on Windows platforms when document.write was called with a very long string a buffer overflow was caused in line breaking routines attempting to process the string for display. Such cases triggered an invalid read past the end of an array causing a crash which an...

Cross-origin data theft through document.getSelection() — Mozilla

Security researcher Gregory Fleischer reported that text within a selection on a web page can be read by JavaScript in a different domain using the document.getSelection function, violating the same-origin policy. Since this vulnerability requires user interaction to exploit, its severity was...

setTimeout loses XPCNativeWrappers — Mozilla

Mozilla developer Blake Kaplan reported that setTimeout, when called with certain object parameters which should be protected with a XPCNativeWrapper, will fail to keep the object wrapped when compiling the new function to be executed. If chrome privileged code were to call setTimeout using this ...

POST data sent to wrong site when saving web page with embedded frame — Mozilla

Developer and Mozilla community member Paolo Amadini reported that when saving the inner frame of a web page as a file when the outer page has POST data associated with it, the POST data will be incorrectly sent to the URL of the inner frame. This could potentially result in a user's sensitive da...

Faulty .properties file results in uninitialized memory being used — Mozilla

Mozilla developer Daniel Glazman demonstrated that an improperly encoded .properties file in an add-on can result in uninitialized memory being used. This could potentially result in small chunks of data formerly used by other programs being exposed to the add-on code. If the localized string wer...

Arbitrary file upload via originalTarget and DOM Range — Mozilla

Opera Software reported a vulnerability which allows malicious content to force the browser into uploading local files to the remote server. This could be used by an attacker to steal files from known locations on a victim's computer...

Multiple XSS vulnerabilities from character encoding — Mozilla

WebKit developer Alexey Proskuryakov reported that the Mozilla HTML parser treated the backspace character as whitespace contrary to the HTML specification and different from other browsers. This difference might lead to Cross-site Scripting XSS risks on sites which filtered input in accordance...

Path Abuse in Cookies — Mozilla

Nicolas Derouet reported two problems with cookie handling in Mozilla clients. The first was that the cookie path parameter was not subject to any length checks, and this could be abused to cause the victim's browser to use excessive amounts of memory while it was running as well as waste the dis...

Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.0.12/1.8.1.4) — Mozilla

As part of the Firefox 2.0.0.4 and 1.5.0.12 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 b...

Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.0.10/1.8.1.2) — Mozilla

As part of the Firefox 2.0.0.2 and 1.5.0.10 update releases we fixed several bugs to improve the stability of the product. Some of these were crashes that showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code...

PAC privilege escalation using Function.prototype.call — Mozilla

mozbugra4 reports that a malicious Proxy AutoConfig PAC server could serve a PAC script that can execute code with elevated privileges by setting the required FindProxyForURL function to the eval method on a privileged object that leaked into the PAC sandbox. By redirecting the victim to a...

Privilege escalation using a JavaScript function's cloned parent — Mozilla

shutdown discovered it was possible to use the Object.watch method to access an internal function object the "clone parent" which could then be used to run arbitrary JavaScript code with full permission. This could be used to install malware such as password sniffers or viruses...

Code execution through shared function objects — Mozilla

Improper cloning of base objects allowed web content scripts to walk up the prototype chain to get to a privileged object. This could be used to execute code with enhanced privileges...

Addressbar spoofing through stored data url shortcuts on Firefox for Android — Mozilla

Security researcher Muneaki Nishimura reported an issue with displayed URLs and bookmarks on Firefox for Android. If a data: URL is opened from a stored shortcut on the homescreen or from a BOOKMARK intent from another installed Android application, the addressbar continues to show the data: url...

Same-origin bypass using canvas context — Mozilla

Mozilla developer Vladimir Vukicevic reported that a canvas element can be used to read data from another site, violating the same-origin policy. The read restriction placed on a canvas element which has had cross-origin data rendered into it can be bypassed by retaining a reference to the canvas...

Integer overflow, crash in libtheora video library — Mozilla

Security researcher Dan Kaminsky reported an integer overflow in the Theora video library. A video's dimensions were being multiplied together and used in particular memory allocations. When the video dimensions were sufficiently large, the multiplication could overflow a 32-bit integer resulting...

Chrome privilege escalation with FeedWriter — Mozilla

Mozilla security researcher mozbugra4 reported that the BrowserFeedWriter could be leveraged to run JavaScript code from web content with elevated privileges. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could construct an object containing malicious JavaScript and cause the FeedWriter to process the...

Heap overflow in certificate regexp parsing — Mozilla

Moxie Marlinspike reported a heap overflow vulnerability in the code that handles regular expressions in certificate names. This vulnerability could be used to compromise the browser and run arbitrary code by presenting a specially crafted certificate to the client. This code provided compatibili...