Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2006-22
CSS Letter-Spacing Heap Overflow Vulnerability
- Announced
- April 13, 2006
- Reporter
- TippingPoint and the Zero Day Initiative
- Impact
- Critical
- Products
- Firefox, Mozilla Suite, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird
- Fixed in
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- Firefox 1.0.8
- Firefox 1.5.0.2
- Mozilla Suite 1.7.13
- SeaMonkey 1.0.1
- Thunderbird 1.0.8
- Thunderbird 1.5.0.2
Description
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.
The overflow condition itself does not require JavaScript and thus could affect Thunderbird via received mail, but without scripting to prepare memory it may not be possible to exploit this condition in mail.
Workaround
Upgrade to the fixed version.