Memory corruption involving scrolling

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2013-1735   CVE-2013-1736  

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2013-90

Memory corruption involving scrolling

Announced
September 17, 2013
Reporter
Nils
Impact
Critical
Products
Firefox, Firefox ESR, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird, Thunderbird ESR
Fixed in
  • Firefox 24
  • Firefox ESR 17.0.9
  • SeaMonkey 2.21
  • Thunderbird 24
  • Thunderbird ESR 17.0.9

Description

Security researcher Nils reported two potentially exploitable memory corruption bugs involving scrolling. The first was a use-after-free condition due to scrolling an image document. The second was due to nodes in a range request being added as children of two different parents.

In general these flaws cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird product because scripting is disabled, but are potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts.

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