Bug 1121479 (CVE-2014-1557)

Summary: CVE-2014-1557 Mozilla: Crash in Skia library when scaling high quality images (MFSA 2014-64)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: jhorak, jrusnack, security-response-team, stransky
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-07-21 05:07:52 UTC
Mozilla community member John reported a crash in the Skia library when scaling high quality images if the scaling operation takes too long. This is caused by the image data being discarded while still in use by the scaling operation. This crash is potentially exploitable on some systems.

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/mfsa2014-64.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Mozilla community member John as the original reporter.

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2014-07-22 18:21:17 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2014:0918 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0918.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2014-07-22 22:33:18 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-2014:0919 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0919.html