Bug 1095066 (CVE-2014-1522)

Summary: CVE-2014-1522 Mozilla: Web Audio memory corruption issues (MFSA 2014-36)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: gecko-bugs-nobody, jhorak, jkurik, stransky
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-05-07 04:55:46 UTC 
Security researcher Ash reported an out of bounds read issue with Web Audio. This issue could allow for web content to trigger crashes that are potentially exploitable. 


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-36.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Security researcher Ash as the original reporter.


Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6