Bug 1152359 (CVE-2014-1577)

Summary: CVE-2014-1577 Mozilla: Web Audio memory corruption issues with custom waveforms (MFSA 2014-76)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-10-14 02:21:02 UTC 
Security researcher Holger Fuhrmannek used the used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover an out-of-bounds read issue with Web Audio when interacting with custom waveforms with invalid values. This results in a crash and could allow for the reading of random memory which may contain sensitive data, or of memory addresses that could be used in combination with another bug.

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/mfsa2014-76.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Holger Fuhrmannek as the original reporter.
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-15 02:40:49 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
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-15 16:12:36 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2014:1647 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1647.html