Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 117, Firefox ESR 115.2, and Thunderbird 115.2
Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 116, Firefox ESR 115.1, and Thunderbird 115.1.
thunderbird security update
Released 2023-09-04 · Red Hat rating Important · View on Red Hat →
Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 116, Firefox ESR 115.1, and Thunderbird 115.1.
Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 116, Firefox ESR 102.14, Firefox ESR 115.1, Thunderbird 102.14, and Thunderbird 115.1.
When checking if the Browsing Context had been discarded in `HttpBaseChannel`, if the load group was not available then it was assumed to have already been discarded which was not always the case for private channels aft…
A website could have obscured the full screen notification by using the file open dialog.
When receiving rendering data over IPC `mStream` could have been destroyed when initialized, which could have led to a use-after-free causing a potentially exploitable crash.
When calling `JS::CheckRegExpSyntax` a Syntax Error could have been set which would end in calling `convertToRuntimeErrorAndClear`.
When `UpdateRegExpStatics` attempted to access `initialStringHeap` it could already have been garbage collected prior to entering the function, which could potentially have led to an exploitable crash.
When creating a callback over IPC for showing the File Picker window, multiple of the same callbacks could have been created at a time and eventually all simultaneously destroyed as soon as one of the callbacks finished.
When creating a callback over IPC for showing the Color Picker window, multiple of the same callbacks could have been created at a time and eventually all simultaneously destroyed as soon as one of the callbacks finished…
A website could have obscured the full screen notification by using a URL with a scheme handled by an external program, such as a mailto URL.
Push notifications stored on disk in private browsing mode were not being encrypted potentially allowing the leak of sensitive information.
Excel `.xll` add-in files did not have a blocklist entry in Firefox's executable blocklist which allowed them to be downloaded without any warning of their potential harm.