Bug 1169206 (CVE-2014-1590)

Summary: CVE-2014-1590 Mozilla: XMLHttpRequest crashes with some input streams (MFSA 2014-85)
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 2014-12-01 04:12:33 UTC 
Security researcher Joe Vennix from Rapid7 reported that passing a JavaScript object to XMLHttpRequest that mimics an input stream will a crash. This crash is not exploitable and can only be used for denial of service attacks.

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/mfsa2014-85.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Joe Vennix as the original reporter.
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2014-12-02 22:46:37 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2014:1924 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1924.html
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2014-12-02 23:43:26 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2014:1919 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1919.html