Reefa Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 Mozilla has outfoxed three critical and six high severity flaws in its latest round of patches for its flagship browser.It stomps out memory safety bugs, exploitable use-after-free crashes, and a buffer overflow.Of the critical crashes, bad guys could potentially craft attacks targeting MP4 video playback through a buffer overflow in the libstagefright library (CVE-2015-0829).Another potential exploitable crash that is unlikely to be a threat in email clients where scripting was disabled centres on a use-after-free flaw for specific web content with IndexedDB (CVE-2015-0831).The third are a bunch of memory bugs (CVE-2015-0836) (CVE-2015-0835) Mozilla and its fans found in the engine behind the company's products including Firefox browser that dedicated attackers could probably exploit, given enough coffee.High severity vulnerabilities include the ability to using autocomplete pluck user information from readable files stored in known local paths; an opprtunity for bad guys to get Firefox to execute their malware through its update facility, and the ability for scripts to access browser memory through the creation of dodgy MP3s.Six moderate and two low -severity bugs are detailed in Mozilla's advisory.The new version of the browser also adds HTTP2 supporthttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/26/mozilla_swats_17_bugs_in_firefox_36/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arizin Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 Its good to see Firefox beefing up on security. Waiting for the sandbox based architecture to be in the stable version soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcs18 Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 Oh yes - we did stumble upon HTTP/2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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