Mozilla has fixed 14 security vulnerabilities in Firefox, including four critical flaws that could allow remote code execution. There also are six high-severity vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 22.
The new version of Mozilla’s flagship browser is a major release in many ways, not least because of the considerable number of security fixes it contains. Among the critical security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 22 is a memory problem discovered by a well-known security researcher named Nils, of MWR InfoSecurity, who is a frequent contestant at the Pwn2Own contest at CanSecWest.
“Security researcher Nils reported that specially crafted web content using the onreadystatechange event and reloading of pages could sometimes cause a crash when unmapped memory is executed. This crash is potentially exploitable,” the Mozilla security advisory says.
A second critical vulnerability involves the potential privileged content access and execution via XBL.
“Security researcher Mariusz Mlynski reported that it is possible to compile a user-defined function in the XBL scope of a specific element and then trigger an event within this scope to run code. In some circumstances, when this code is run, it can access content protected by System Only Wrappers (SOW) and chrome-privileged pages. This could potentially lead to arbitrary code execution. Additionally, Chrome Object Wrappers (COW) can be bypassed by web content to access privileged methods, leading to a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack from privileged pages,” the advisory says.
Here is the full list of vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 22:
MFSA 2013-62 Inaccessible updater can lead to local privilege escalation
MFSA 2013-61 Homograph domain spoofing in .com, .net and .name
MFSA 2013-60 getUserMedia permission dialog incorrectly displays location
MFSA 2013-59 XrayWrappers can be bypassed to run user defined methods in a privileged context
MFSA 2013-58 X-Frame-Options ignored when using server push with multi-part responses
MFSA 2013-57 Sandbox restrictions not applied to nested frame elements
MFSA 2013-56 PreserveWrapper has inconsistent behavior
MFSA 2013-55 SVG filters can lead to information disclosure
MFSA 2013-54 Data in the body of XHR HEAD requests leads to CSRF attacks
MFSA 2013-53 Execution of unmapped memory through onreadystatechange event
MFSA 2013-52 Arbitrary code execution within Profiler
MFSA 2013-51 Privileged content access and execution via XBL
MFSA 2013-50 Memory corruption found using Address Sanitizer
MFSA 2013-49 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:22.0 / rv:17.0.7)
