Bug 1107424 (CVE-2014-1541)

Summary: CVE-2014-1541 Mozilla: Use-after-free with SMIL Animation Controller (MFSA 2014-52)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: erack, jhorak, jkurik, jrusnack, security-response-team, stransky, tpopela
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-06-10 02:42:20 UTC 
Security researcher Nils used the Address Sanitizer to discover a use-after-free problem with the SMIL Animation Controller when interacting with and rendering improperly formed web content. This causes a potentially exploitable crash.

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


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-52.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Nils as the original reporter.
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2014-06-10 20:45:32 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 21:36:07 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