Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 135 and Thunderbird 135. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 136 and Thunderbird < 136.
A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1869650%2C1938451%2C1940326%2C1944052%2C1944063%2C1947281 | broken link |
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-14/ | vendor advisory |
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-17/ | vendor advisory |