Bug 1121470 (CVE-2014-1549)

Summary: CVE-2014-1549 Mozilla: Buffer overflow during Web Audio buffering for playback (MFSA 2014-57)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-07-21 04:41:09 UTC 
Using the Address Sanitizer tool, security researcher Atte Kettunen from OUSPG discovered a buffer overflow during interaction with the Web Audio buffer for playback because of an error in the the amount of allocated memory for buffers. This leads to a potentially exploitable crash with some audio content.

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/mfsa2014-57.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Atte Kettunen as the original reporter.

Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6, or the version of firefox as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7.