Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2014-08
Use-after-free with imgRequestProxy and image proccessing
- Announced
- February 4, 2014
- Reporter
- Arthur Gerkis
- Impact
- Critical
- Products
- Firefox, Firefox ESR, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird
- Fixed in
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- Firefox 27
- Firefox ESR 24.3
- SeaMonkey 2.24
- Thunderbird 24.3
Description
Security researcher Arthur Gerkis, via TippingPoint's Zero
Day Initiative, reported a use-after-free during image processing from sites
with specific content types in concert with the imgRequestProxy
function. This causes a potentially exploitable crash.
In general this flaw cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird and Seamonkey products because scripting is disabled in mail, but is potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts.