bugtraq - Uninit memory disclosure via truncated images in Firefox

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Message-ID: <CALx_OUB4m29ut-O21uXLX-YWBx6Qn4uHxPM6bgt-ONUOwoKUbA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 12:47:00 -0700
From: Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@...edump.cx>
To: bugtraq <bugtraq@...urityfocus.com>
Subject: Uninit memory disclosure via truncated images in Firefox

Yello,

The recent release of Firefox 32 fixes another interesting image
parsing issue found by afl [1]: following a refactoring of memory
management code, the past few versions of the browser ended up using
uninitialized memory for certain types of truncated images, which is
easily measurable with a simple <canvas> + toDataURL() harness that
examines all the fuzzer-generated test cases.

Depending on a variety of factors, problems like that may leak secrets
across web origins, or more prosaically, may help attackers bypass
security measures such as ASLR. Here's a short proof-of-concept that
should work if you haven't updated to 32 yet:

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/ffgif/

This is tracked as CVE-2014-1564, Mozilla bug 1045977, MFSA 2014-69.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/american-fuzzy-lop/

PS. Mildly interesting:
http://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/client-identification-mechanisms