Bug 1092660 (CVE-2014-1523)

Summary: CVE-2014-1523 Mozilla: Out of bounds read while decoding JPG images (MFSA-2014-37)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Vincent Danen <vdanen>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: gecko-bugs-nobody, jhorak, jkurik, jrusnack, stransky
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Fixed In Version: firefox 24.5 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Vincent Danen 2014-04-29 16:46:38 UTC 
Security researcher Abhishek Arya (Inferno) of the Google Chrome Security Team used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a fixed offset out of bounds read issue while decoding specifically formatted JPG format images. This causes a non-exploitable crash.


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-37.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Abhishek Arya as the original reporter.
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2014-04-29 22:15:52 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2014:0449 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0449.html
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2014-04-29 22:46:23 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2014:0448 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0448.html