Bug 1107425 (CVE-2014-1542)

Summary: CVE-2014-1542 Mozilla: Buffer overflow in Web Audio Speex resampler (MFSA 2014-53)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-06-10 02:43:42 UTC
Security researcher Holger Fuhrmannek used the used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a buffer overflow with the Speex resampler in Web Audio when working with audio content that exceeds expected bounds. This leads to a potentially exploitable crash. 


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-53.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Holger Fuhrmannek 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