Add support for OTS font sanitizer

Add support for OTS font sanitizer

Announced

December 9, 2010

Reporter

Marc Schoenefeld, Christoph Diehl

Impact

Critical

Products

Firefox, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird

Fixed in

• Firefox 3.5.16
• Firefox 3.6.13
• SeaMonkey 2.0.11
• Thunderbird 3.0.11
• Thunderbird 3.1.7

Description

Mozilla added the OTS font sanitizing library to prevent downloadable fonts from exposing vulnerabilities in the underlying OS font code. This library mitigates against several issues independently reported by Red Hat Security Response Team member Marc Schoenefeld and Mozilla security researcher Christoph Diehl.

References

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=527276
• CVE-2010-3768