Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2013-102
Use-after-free in HTML document templates
- Announced
- October 29, 2013
- Reporter
- Abhishek Arya
- Impact
- Critical
- Products
- Firefox, Firefox ESR, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird
- Fixed in
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- Firefox 25
- Firefox ESR 24.1
- SeaMonkey 2.22
- Thunderbird 24.1
Description
Security researcher Abhishek Arya (Inferno) of the Google Chrome Security Team used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a user-after-free when interacting with HTML document templates. This leads to a potentially exploitable crash.
In general this flaw cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird and Seamonkey products because scripting is disabled, but is potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts.