Use after free in Mozilla Firefox
An unexpected message in the WebGPU IPC framework could lead to a use-after-free and exploitable sandbox escape.
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Released 2022-03-10 · Red Hat rating Critical · View on Red Hat →
An unexpected message in the WebGPU IPC framework could lead to a use-after-free and exploitable sandbox escape.
Removing an XSLT parameter during processing could have lead to an exploitable use-after-free.
In Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.5, there is an integer overflow in storeRawNames.
If an attacker could control the contents of an iframe sandboxed with <code>allow-popups</code> but not <code>allow-scripts</code>, they were able to craft a link that, when clicked, would lead to JavaScript execution in…
xmlparse.c in Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.5 allows attackers to insert namespace-separator characters into namespace URIs.
An attacker could have caused a use-after-free by forcing a text reflow in an SVG object leading to a potentially exploitable crash.
xmltok_impl.c in Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.5 lacks certain validation of encoding, such as checks for whether a UTF-8 character is valid in a certain context.
When resizing a popup after requesting fullscreen access, the popup would not display the fullscreen notification.
When installing an add-on, Firefox verified the signature before prompting the user; but while the user was confirming the prompt, the underlying add-on file could have been modified and Firefox would not have noticed.
Previously Firefox for macOS and Linux would download temporary files to a user-specific directory in <code>/tmp</code>, but this behavior was changed to download them to <code>/tmp</code> where they could be affected by…