JavaScript garbage-collection hazard audit — Mozilla

2006-04-1300:00:00

Mozilla Foundation

www.mozilla.org

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

EPSS

0.077

Percentile

94.2%

JSON

Igor Bukanov has audited the JavaScript engine for routines that use temporary variables not protected against garbage-collection. If malicious content could cause garbage-collection to run during the lifetime of these temporaries then the original routine would end up operating on freed memory.

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

mozillafirefoxRange<1.0.8

mozillafirefoxRange<1.5

mozillamozilla_suiteRange<1.7.13

mozillaseamonkeyRange<1

mozillathunderbirdRange<1.0.8

mozillathunderbirdRange<1.5

VendorProductVersionCPE
mozillafirefox*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozillamozilla_suite*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:mozilla_suite:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozillaseamonkey*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozillathunderbird*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE
mozilla	firefox	*	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox::::::::
mozilla	mozilla_suite	*	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:mozilla_suite::::::::
mozilla	seamonkey	*	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey::::::::
mozilla	thunderbird	*	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird::::::::