Bug 1077016 (CVE-2014-1497)

Summary: CVE-2014-1497 Mozilla: Out of bounds read during WAV file decoding (MFSA 2014-17)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: jhorak, jkurik, jrusnack, security-response-team, stransky
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-03-17 02:53:43 UTC 
Security researcher Atte Kettunen from OUSPG reported an out of bounds read during the decoding of WAV format audio files for playback. This could allow web content access to heap data as well as causing a crash.

In general this flaw cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird and Seamonkey products because audio is disabled, but is potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts.


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-17.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Atte Kettunen as the original reporter.
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2014-03-18 20:34:58 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2014:0310 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0310.html
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2014-03-19 17:27:07 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2014:0316 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0316.html