Use-after-free in IndexedDB

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2015-0831  

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2015-16

Use-after-free in IndexedDB

Announced
February 24, 2015
Reporter
Paul Bandha
Impact
Critical
Products
Firefox, Firefox ESR, Firefox OS, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird
Fixed in
  • Firefox 36
  • Firefox ESR 31.5
  • Firefox OS 2.2
  • SeaMonkey 2.33
  • Thunderbird 31.5

Description

Security researcher Paul Bandha used the used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a use-after-free vulnerability when running specific web content with IndexedDB to create an index. This leads to a potentially exploitable crash.

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

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