Bug 1107399 (CVE-2014-1533)

Summary: CVE-2014-1533 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:24.6) (MFSA 2014-48)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-06-10 02:28:10 UTC 
Mozilla developers and community identified identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.

In general these flaws cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird product because scripting is disabled, but are potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts.

Gary Kwong, Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Hannes Verschore, Jan de Mooij, Ryan VanderMeulen, Jeff Walden, and Kyle Huey reported memory safety problems and crashes that affect Firefox ESR 24.5 and Firefox 29.


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-48.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Gary Kwong, Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Hannes Verschore, Jan de Mooij, Ryan VanderMeulen, Jeff Walden, and Kyle Huey as the original reporters.
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2014-06-10 20:45:24 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2014:0742 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0742.html
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2014-06-10 21:35:59 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2014:0741 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0741.html