It was possible to prevent a user from exiting pointerlock when pressing escape and to overlay customValidity notifications from a <select> element over certain permission prompts. This could be used to confuse a user into giving a site unintended permissions. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 128 and Thunderbird < 128.
Weakness
The product attempts to return a memory resource to the system, but it calls the wrong release function or calls the appropriate release function incorrectly.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Firefox | Mozilla | * | 128.0 (excluding) |
| Thunderbird | Mozilla | * | 128.0 (excluding) |
| Firefox | Ubuntu | focal | * |
| Mozjs102 | Ubuntu | devel | * |
| Mozjs102 | Ubuntu | esm-apps/noble | * |
| Mozjs102 | Ubuntu | jammy | * |
| Mozjs102 | Ubuntu | mantic | * |
| Mozjs102 | Ubuntu | noble | * |
| Mozjs102 | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
| Mozjs38 | Ubuntu | esm-apps/bionic | * |
| Mozjs38 | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
| Mozjs52 | Ubuntu | esm-apps/focal | * |
| Mozjs52 | Ubuntu | esm-infra/bionic | * |
| Mozjs52 | Ubuntu | focal | * |
| Mozjs52 | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
| Mozjs68 | Ubuntu | esm-infra/focal | * |
| Mozjs68 | Ubuntu | focal | * |
| Mozjs68 | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
| Mozjs78 | Ubuntu | esm-apps/jammy | * |
| Mozjs78 | Ubuntu | jammy | * |
| Mozjs78 | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
| Mozjs91 | Ubuntu | jammy | * |
| Mozjs91 | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
| Thunderbird | Ubuntu | mantic | * |
Extended Description
This weakness can take several forms, such as:
Potential Mitigations
- Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
- For example, glibc in Linux provides protection against free of invalid pointers.
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1694513
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-29/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-32/
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1694513
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-29/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-32/