Multiple location bar spoofing vulnerabilities — Mozilla

Google security researcher Michal Zalewski reported two methods for spoofing the contents of the location bar. The first method works by opening a new window containing a resource that responds with an HTTP 204 no content and then using the reference to the new window to insert HTML content into...

Characters mapped to U+FFFD in 8 bit encodings cause subsequent character to vanish — Mozilla

Security researcher O. Andersen reported that undefined positions within various 8 bit character encodings are mapped to the sequence U+FFFD which when displayed causes the immediately following character to disappear from the text run. This could potentially contribute to XSS problems on sites...

nsTreeSelection dangling pointer remote code execution vulnerability — Mozilla

Security researcher regenrecht reported via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative an integer overflow vulnerability in the implementation of the XUL element's selection attribute. When the size of a new selection is sufficiently large the integer used in calculating the length of the selection can...

Cross-domain data theft using CSS — Mozilla

Google security researcher Chris Evans reported that data can be read across domains by injecting bogus CSS selectors into a target site and then retrieving the data using JavaScript APIs. If an attacker can inject opening and closing portions of a CSS selector into points A and B of a target pag...

nsCSSValue::Array index integer overflow — Mozilla

Security researcher J23 reported via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative that an array class used to store CSS values contained an integer overflow vulnerability. The 16 bit integer value used in allocating the size of the array could overflow, resulting in too small a memory buffer being created...

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...

Dangling pointer crash regression from plugin parameter array fix — Mozilla

Mozilla developer Daniel Holbert reported that the fix to the plugin parameter array crash that was fixed in Firefox 3.6.7 caused a crash showing signs of memory corruption. In certain circumstances, properties in the plugin instance's parameter array could be freed prematurely leaving a dangling...

Plugin parameter EnsureCachedAttrParamArrays remote code execution vulnerability — Mozilla

Security researcher J23 reported via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative an error in the code used to store the names and values of plugin parameter elements. A malicious page could embed plugin content containing a very large number of parameter elements which would cause an overflow in the integ...

Remote code execution using malformed PNG image — Mozilla

OUSPG researcher Aki Helin reported a buffer overflow in Mozilla graphics code which consumes image data processed by libpng. A malformed PNG file could be created which would cause libpng to incorrectly report the size of the image to downstream consumers. When the dimensions of such images are...

Arbitrary code execution using SJOW and fast native function — Mozilla

Mozilla security researcher mozbugra4 reported that when content script which is running in a chrome context accesses a content object via SJOW, the content code can gain access to an object from the chrome scope and use that object to run arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges...

DOM attribute cloning remote code execution vulnerability — Mozilla

Security researcher regenrecht reported via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative an error in the DOM attribute cloning routine where under certain circumstances an event attribute node can be deleted while another object still contains a reference to it. This reference could subsequently be accesse...

Use-after-free error in NodeIterator — Mozilla

Security researcher regenrecht reported via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative an error in Mozilla's implementation of NodeIterator in which a malicious NodeFilter could be created which would detach nodes from the DOM tree while it was being traversed. The use of a detached and subsequently...

Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:1.9.2.7/ 1.9.1.11) — 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...

Cross-origin data leakage from script filename in error messages — Mozilla

Security researcher Soroush Dalili reported that potentially sensitive URL parameters could be leaked across domains upon script errors when the script filename and line number is included in the error message...

Content-Disposition: attachment ignored if Content-Type: multipart also present — Mozilla

Security researcher Ilja van Sprundel of IOActive reported that the Content-Disposition: attachment HTTP header was ignored when Content-Type: multipart was also present. This issue could potentially lead to XSS problems in sites that allow users to upload arbitrary files and specify a Content-Ty...

Use-after-free error in nsCycleCollector::MarkRoots() — Mozilla

Security researcher wushi of team509 reported that the frame construction process for certain types of menus could result in a menu containing a pointer to a previously freed menu item. During the cycle collection process, this freed item could be accessed, resulting in the execution of a section...

Freed object reuse across plugin instances — Mozilla

Microsoft Vulnerability Research reported that two plugin instances could interact in a way in which one plugin gets a reference to an object owned by a second plugin and continues to hold that reference after the second plugin is unloaded and its object is destroyed. In these cases, the first...

User tracking across sites using Math.random() — Mozilla

Security researcher Amit Klein reported that it was possible to reverse engineer the value used to seed Math.random. Since the pseudo-random number generator was only seeded once per browsing session, this seed value could be used as a unique token to identify and track users across different web...

focus() behavior can be used to inject or steal keystrokes — Mozilla

Google security researcher Michal Zalewski reported that focus could be used to change a user's cursor focus while they are typing, potentially directing their keyboard input to an unintended location. This behavior was also present across origins when content from one domain was embedded within...

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...

Heap buffer overflow in nsGenericDOMDataNode::SetTextInternal — Mozilla

Security researcher Nils of MWR InfoSecurity reported that the routine for setting the text value for certain types of DOM nodes contained an integer overflow vulnerability. When a very long string was passed to this routine, the integer value used in creating a new memory buffer to hold the stri...

Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.2.4/ 1.9.1.10) — 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...

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...

Arbitrary code execution with Firebug XMLHttpRequestSpy — Mozilla

Mozilla security researcher mozbugra4 reported that the XMLHttpRequestSpy module in the Firebug add-on was exposing an underlying chrome privilege escalation vulnerability. When the XMLHttpRequestSpy object was created, it would attach various properties of itself to objects defined in web conten...

Dangling pointer vulnerability in nsPluginArray — Mozilla

Security researcher regenrecht reported via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative an error in the implementation of the window.navigator.plugins object. When a page reloads, the plugins array would reallocate all of its members without checking for existing references to each member. This could resu...

Remote code execution with use-after-free in nsTreeSelection — Mozilla

Security researcher regenrecht reported via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative that a select event handler for XUL tree items could be called after the tree item was deleted. This results in the execution of previously freed memory which an attacker could use to crash a victim's browser and run...

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...

Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.2.2/ 1.9.1.9/ 1.9.0.19) — 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...

Dangling pointer vulnerability in nsTreeContentView — Mozilla

Security researcher regenrecht reported via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative an error in the way elements are inserted into a XUL tree . In certain cases, the number of references to an element is under-counted so that when the element is deleted, a live pointer to its old location is kept arou...

Update NSS to support TLS renegotiation indication — Mozilla

Mozilla developers added support in the Network Security Services module for preventing a type of man-in-the-middle attack against TLS using forced renegotiation...

Image src redirect to mailto: URL opens email editor — Mozilla

phpBB developer Henry Sudhof reported that when an image tag points to a resource that redirects to a mailto: URL, the external mail handler application is launched. This issue poses no security threat to users but could create an annoyance when browsing a site that allows users to post arbitrary...

XMLDocument::load() doesn't check nsIContentPolicy — Mozilla

Mozilla community member Wladimir Palant reported that XML documents were failing to call certain security checks when loading new content. This could result in certain resources being loaded that would otherwise violate security policies set by the browser or installed add-ons...

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...

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...

Browser chrome defacement via cached XUL stylesheets — Mozilla

Mozilla developer Wladimir Palant reported that stylesheets used in remote XUL documents can wind up in the XUL cache where it can later be accessed by browser chrome for use in styling the user interface. A malicious website could use this issue to pollute a user's XUL cache and change style...

Deleted frame reuse in multipart/x-mixed-replace image — Mozilla

Security researcher regenrecht reported via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative a potential reuse of a deleted image frame in Firefox 3.6's handling of multipart/x-mixed-replace images. Although no exploit was shown, re-use of freed memory has led to exploitable vulnerabilities in the past...

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...

XSS using addEventListener and setTimeout on a wrapped object — Mozilla

Mozilla security researcher mozbugra4 reports that by using an appropriately wrapped object it was possible to bypass the fix for MFSA 2007-19. Prior to Firefox 3.6 this gives an attacker the ability to perform cross-site scripting attacks against arbitrary sites as in the original MFSA 2007-19...

Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.2.2/ 1.9.1.8/ 1.9.0.18) — 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...

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...

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...

Fixes for potentially exploitable crashes ported to the legacy branch — Mozilla

Mozilla developers took fixes from previously fixed memory safety bugs in newer Mozilla-based products and ported them to the Mozilla 1.8.1 branch so they can be utilized by Thunderbird 2 and SeaMonkey 1.1...

Use-after-free crash in HTML parser — Mozilla

Security researcher Alin Rad Pop of Secunia Research reported that the HTML parser incorrectly freed used memory when insufficient space was available to process remaining input. Under such circumstances, memory occupied by in-use objects was freed and could later be filled with attacker-controll...

Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.1.8/ 1.9.0.18) — 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...

XSS hazard using SVG document and binary Content-Type — Mozilla

Mozilla security researcher Georgi Guninski reported that when a SVG document which is served with Content-Type: application/octet-stream is embedded into another document via an tag with type="image/svg+xml", the Content-Type is ignored and the SVG document is processed normally. A website which...

XSS due to window.dialogArguments being readable cross-domain — Mozilla

Security researcher Hidetake Jo of Microsoft Vulnerability Research reported that the properties set on an object passed to showModalDialog were readable by the document contained in the dialog, even when the document was from a different domain. This is a violation of the same-origin policy and...

Web Worker Array Handling Heap Corruption Vulnerability — Mozilla

Security researcher Orlando Barrera II of SecTheory reported, via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative, that Mozilla's implementation of Web Workers contained an error in its handling of array data types when processing posted messages. This error could be used by an attacker to corrupt heap memory...

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 ...

GeckoActiveXObject exception messages can be used to enumerate installed COM objects — Mozilla

Security researcher Gregory Fleischer reported that the exception messages generated by Mozilla's GeckoActiveXObject differ based on whether or not the requested COM object's ProgID is present in the system registry. A malicious site could use this vulnerability to enumerate a list of COM objects...

Privilege escalation via chrome window.opener — Mozilla

Security researcher David James reported that a content window which is opened by a chrome window retains a reference to the chrome window via the window.opener property. Using this reference, content in the new window can access functions inside the chrome window, such as eval, and use these...