Fixes for Location object issues — Mozilla

Mozilla has fixed a number of issues related to the Location object in order to enhance overall security. Details for each of the current fixed issues are below...

defaultValue security checks not applied — Mozilla

Mozilla security researcher mozbugra4 reported a regression where security wrappers are unwrapped without doing a security check in defaultValue. This can allow for improper access to the Location object. In versions 15 and earlier of affected products, there was also the potential for arbitrary...

Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:16.0.1) — Mozilla

Mozilla developers identified and fixed two top crashing bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. These bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to ru...

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...

Some DOMWindowUtils methods bypass security checks — Mozilla

Mozilla developer Johnny Stenback discovered that several methods of a feature used for testing DOMWindowUtils are not protected by existing security checks, allowing these methods to be called through script by web pages. This was addressed by adding the existing security checks to these methods...

Heap memory corruption issues found using Address Sanitizer — Mozilla

Security researcher Atte Kettunen from OUSPG reported several heap memory corruption issues found using the Address Sanitizer tool. These issues are potentially exploitable, allowing for remote code execution...

GetProperty function can bypass security checks — Mozilla

Mozilla community member Alice White reported that when the GetProperty function is invoked through JSAPI, security checking can be bypassed when getting cross-origin properties. This potentially allowed for arbitrary code execution...

select element persistence allows for attacks — Mozilla

Security researcher David Bloom of Cue discovered that elements are always-on-top chromeless windows and that navigation away from a page with an active menu does not remove this window.When another menu is opened programmatically on a new page, the original menu can be retained and arbitrary HTM...

Chrome Object Wrapper (COW) does not disallow access to privileged functions or properties — Mozilla

Security researcher Mariusz Mlynski reported that when InstallTrigger fails, it throws an error wrapped in a Chrome Object Wrapper COW that fails to specify exposed properties. These can then be added to the resulting object by an attacker, allowing access to chrome privileged functions through...

Spoofing and script injection through location.hash — Mozilla

Security researcher Mariusz Mlynski reported an issue with spoofing of the location property. In this issue, writes to location.hash can be used in concert with scripted history navigation to cause a specific website to be loaded into the history object. The baseURI can then be changed to this...

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...

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...

Use-after-free, buffer overflow, and out of bounds read issues found using Address Sanitizer — Mozilla

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

DOS and crash with full screen and history navigation — Mozilla

Security researcher Soroush Dalili reported that a combination of invoking full screen mode and navigating backwards in history could, in some circumstances, cause a hang or crash due to a timing dependent use-after-free pointer reference. This crash may be potentially exploitable...

Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:16.0/ rv:10.0.8) — 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...

Use-after-free in the IME State Manager — Mozilla

Security researcher miaubiz used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a use-after-free in the IME State Manager code. This could lead to a potentially exploitable crash...

Crash with invalid cast when using instanceof operator — Mozilla

Mozilla community member Ms2ger reported a crash due to an invalid cast when using the instanceof operator on certain types of JavaScript objects. This can lead to a potentially exploitable crash...

SPDY information disclosure — Mozilla

Security researchers Thai Duong and Juliano Rizzo reported that SPDY's request header compression leads to information leakage, which can allow the extraction of private data such as session cookies, even over an encrypted SSL connection...

Graphite 2 memory corruption — Mozilla

Using the Address Sanitizer tool, Mozilla security researcher Christoph Diehl discovered two memory corruption issues involving the Graphite 2 library used in Mozilla products. Both of these issues can cause a potentially exploitable crash. These problems were fixed in the Graphite 2 library, whi...

SVG buffer overflow and use-after-free issues — Mozilla

Security researcher Arthur Gerkis used the Address Sanitizer tool to find two issues involving Scalable Vector Graphics SVG files. The first issue is a buffer overflow in Gecko's SVG filter code when the sum of two values is too large to be stored as a signed 32-bit integer, causing the function ...

Location object can be shadowed using Object.defineProperty — Mozilla

Security researcher Mariusz Mlynski reported that it is possible to shadow the location object using Object.defineProperty. This could be used to confuse the current location to plugins, allowing for possible cross-site scripting XSS attacks...

Use-after-free issues found using Address Sanitizer — Mozilla

Security researcher Abhishek Arya Inferno of the Google Chrome Security Team discovered a series of use-after-free issues using the Address Sanitizer tool. Many of these issues are potentially exploitable, allowing for remote code execution...

Web console eval capable of executing chrome-privileged code — Mozilla

Security researcher Colby Russell discovered that eval in the web console can execute injected code with chrome privileges, leading to the running of malicious code in a privileged context. This allows for arbitrary code execution through a malicious web page if the web console is invoked by the...

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...

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...

Installer will launch incorrect executable following new installation — Mozilla

Security researcher Masato Kinugawa reported that if a crafted executable is placed in the root partition on a Windows file system, the Firefox and Thunderbird installer will launch this program after a standard installation instead of Firefox or Thunderbird, running this program with the user's...

HTTPMonitor extension allows for remote debugging without explicit activation — Mozilla

Mozilla security researcher Mark Goodwin discovered an issue with the Firefox developer tools' debugger. If remote debugging is disabled, but the experimental HTTPMonitor extension has been installed and enabled, a remote user can connect to and use the remote debugging service through the port...

Memory corruption with bitmap format images with negative height — Mozilla

Security researcher Frédéric Hoguin reported two related issues with the decoding of bitmap .BMP format images embedded in icon .ICO format files. When processing a negative "height" header value for the bitmap image, a memory corruption can be induced, allowing an attacker to write random memory...

Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:15.0/ rv:10.0.7) — 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...

Location object security checks bypassed by chrome code — Mozilla

Mozilla security researcher mozbugra4 reported that certain security checks in the location object can be bypassed if chrome code is called content in a specific manner. This allowed for the loading of restricted content. This can be combined with other issues to become potentially exploitable...

Insecure use of __android_log_print — Mozilla

Mozilla developer Blake Kaplan reported that androidlogprint is called insecurely in places. If a malicious web page used a dump statement with a specially crafted string, it can trigger a potentially exploitable crash...

Escalation of privilege through about:newtab — Mozilla

Security researcher Mariusz Mlynski reported that when a page opens a new tab, a subsequent window can then be opened that can be navigated to about:newtab, a chrome privileged page. Once about:newtab is loaded, the special context can potentially be used to escalate privilege, allowing for...

Out-of-bounds read in format-number in XSLT — Mozilla

Security research Nicolas Grégoire used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover an out-of-bounds read in the format-number feature of XSLT, which can cause inaccurate formatting of numbers and information leakage. This is not directly exploitable...

WebGL use-after-free and memory corruption — Mozilla

Security researcher miaubiz used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover two WebGL issues. The first issue is a use-after-free when WebGL shaders are called after being destroyed. The second issue exposes a problem with Mesa drivers on Linux, leading to a potentially exploitable crash...

Clickjacking of certificate warning page — Mozilla

Security Researcher Matt McCutchen reported that a clickjacking attack using the certificate warning page. A man-in-the-middle MITM attacker can use an iframe to display its own certificate error warning page about:certerror with the "Add Exception" button of a real warning page from a malicious...

Out of bounds read in QCMS — Mozilla

Google developer Tony Payne reported an out of bounds OOB read in QCMS, Mozilla’s color management library. With a carefully crafted color profile portions of a user's memory could be incorporated into a transformed image and possibly deciphered...

Spoofing issue with location — Mozilla

Security researcher Mariusz Mlynski reported an issue with spoofing of the location property. In this issue, calls to history.forward and history.back are used to navigate to a site while displaying the previous site in the addressbar but changing the baseURI to the newer site. This can be used f...

Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:14.0/ rv:10.0.6) — 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...

Incorrect URL displayed in addressbar through drag and drop — Mozilla

Security researcher Mario Gomes andresearch firm Code Audit Labs reported a mechanism to short-circuit page loads through drag and drop to the addressbar by canceling the page load. This causes the address of the previously site entered to be displayed in the addressbar instead of the currently...

JSDependentString::undepend string conversion results in memory corruption — Mozilla

Security researcher Bill Keese reported a memory corruption. This is caused by JSDependentString::undepend changing a dependent string into a fixed string when there are additional dependent strings relying on the same base. When the undepend occurs during conversion, the base data is freed,...

Same-compartment Security Wrappers can be bypassed — Mozilla

Mozilla developer Bobby Holley found that same-compartment security wrappers SCSW can be bypassed by passing them to another compartment. Cross-compartment wrappers often do not go through SCSW, but have a filtering policy built into them. When an object is wrapped cross-compartment, the SCSW is...

Improper filtering of javascript in HTML feed-view — Mozilla

Security researcher Mario Heiderich reported that javascript could be executed in the HTML feed-view using tag within the RSS . This problem is due to tags not being filtered out during parsing and can lead to a potential cross-site scripting XSS attack. The flaw existed in a parser utility class...

feed: URLs with an innerURI inherit security context of page — Mozilla

Security researchers Mario Gomes and Soroush Dalili reported that since Mozilla allows the pseudo-protocol feed: to prefix any valid URL, it is possible to construct feed:javascript: URLs that will execute scripts in some contexts. On some sites it may be possible to use this to evade output...

Content Security Policy 1.0 implementation errors cause data leakage — Mozilla

Security researcher Karthikeyan Bhargavan of Prosecco at INRIA reported Content Security Policy CSP 1.0 implementation errors. CSP violation reports generated by Firefox and sent to the "report-uri" location include sensitive data within the "blocked-uri" parameter. These include fragment...

X-Frame-Options header ignored when duplicated — Mozilla

Bugzilla developer Frédéric Buclin reported that the "X-Frame-Options header is ignored when the value is duplicated, for example X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN, SAMEORIGIN. This duplication occurs for unknown reasons on some websites and when it occurs results in Mozilla browsers not being protecte...

use-after-free in nsGlobalWindow::PageHidden — Mozilla

Security researcher Arthur Gerkis used the Address Sanitizer tool to find a use-after-free in nsGlobalWindow::PageHidden when mFocusedContent is released and oldFocusedContent is used afterwards. This use-after-free could possibly allow for remote code execution...

XSS through data: URLs — Mozilla

Mozilla security researcher mozbugra4 reported a cross-site scripting XSS attack through the context menu using a data: URL. In this issue, context menu functionality "View Image", "Show only this frame", and "View background image" are disallowed in a javascript: URL but allowed in a data: URL,...

Gecko memory corruption — Mozilla

Google security researcher Abhishek Arya used the Address Sanitizer tool to uncover four issues: two use-after-free problems, one out of bounds read bug, and a bad cast. The first use-after-free problem is caused when an array of nsSMILTimeValueSpec objects is destroyed but attempts are made to...

Code execution through javascript: URLs — Mozilla

Mozilla security researcher mozbugra4 reported a arbitrary code execution attack using a javascript: URL. The Gecko engine features a JavaScript sandbox utility that allows the browser or add-ons to safely execute script in the context of a web page. In certain cases, javascript: URLs are execute...

Use-after-free in nsHTMLSelectElement — Mozilla

Security researcher regenrecht reported a flaw that affected Firefox versions 4 through 8 via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative. This flaw is a use-after-free in nsHTMLSelectElement when the parent node of the element is no longer active and could allow for possible remote code execution...