Bug 1152358 (CVE-2014-1576)

Summary: CVE-2014-1576 Mozilla: Buffer overflow during CSS manipulation (MFSA 2014-75)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-10-14 02:19:23 UTC 
Using the Address Sanitizer tool, security researcher Atte Kettunen from OUSPG discovered a buffer overflow when making capitalization style changes during CSS parsing. This can cause a crash that is potentially exploitable. 


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-75.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Atte Kettunen as the original reporter.
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-15 02:40:47 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2014:1635 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1635.html