Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2014-52
Use-after-free with SMIL Animation Controller
- Announced
- June 10, 2014
- Reporter
- Nils
- Impact
- Critical
- Products
- Firefox, Firefox ESR, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird
- Fixed in
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- Firefox 30
- Firefox ESR 24.6
- SeaMonkey 2.26.1
- Thunderbird 24.6
Description
Security researcher Nils used the Address Sanitizer to discover a use-after-free problem with the SMIL Animation Controller when interacting with and rendering improperly formed web content. This causes a potentially exploitable crash.
In general this flaw cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird and Seamonky products because scripting is disabled, but is potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts.