Out-of-bounds write in Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 84 and Firefox ESR 78.6.
firefox security update
Released 2021-01-28 · Red Hat rating Important · View on Red Hat →
Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 84 and Firefox ESR 78.6.
Performing garbage collection on re-declared JavaScript variables resulted in a user-after-poison, and a potentially exploitable crash.
Using the new logical assignment operators in a JavaScript switch statement could have caused a type confusion, leading to a memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash.
When a HTTPS pages was embedded in a HTTP page, and there was a service worker registered for the former, the service worker could have intercepted the request for the secure page despite the iframe not being a secure co…
If a user clicked into a specifically crafted PDF, the PDF reader could be confused into leaking cross-origin information, when said information is served as chunked data.