WOFF heap corruption due to integer overflow

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2010-1028  

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2010-08

WOFF heap corruption due to integer overflow

Announced
March 22, 2010
Reporter
Evgeny Legerov
Impact
Critical
Products
Firefox
Fixed in
  • Firefox 3.6.2

Description

Security researcher Evgeny Legerov of Intevydis reported that the WOFF decoder contains an integer overflow in a font decompression routine. This flaw could result in too small a memory buffer being allocated to store a downloadable font. An attacker could use this vulnerability to crash a victim's browser and execute arbitrary code on his/her system.

Support for the WOFF downloadable font format is new in Firefox 3.6 (Gecko 1.9.2); this vulnerability does not affect products built on earlier versions of the Mozilla browser engine.

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