Bug 188837

Summary: CVE-2006-1730 CSS Letter-Spacing Heap Overflow Vulnerability
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: firefoxAssignee: Christopher Aillon <caillon>
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Version: 5CC: djuran, security-response-team, wtogami
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Description Josh Bressers 2006-04-13 03:33:57 UTC 
CSS Letter-Spacing Heap Overflow Vulnerability


An  anonymous  researcher for TippingPoint and the Zero Day Initiative
discovered an integer overflow triggered by the CSS letter-spacing property.
This results in in under-allocating memory and ultimately a heap buffer
overflow which could be exploited to run code of the attacker's choice.

The overflow condition itself does not require JavaScript and thus could
affect Thunderbird via received mail, but without scripting to prepare
memory it may not be possible to exploit this condition in mail.

Workaround

Upgrade to the fixed version.

References

[1]ZDI-06-009
[2]https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325403


This issue also affects FC4
Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2006-04-27 12:51:09 UTC 
These issues have been resolved in FEDORA-2006-411 for FC5 and FEDORA-2006-410
for FC4