Bug 1180973 (CVE-2014-8641)

Summary: CVE-2014-8641 Mozilla: Read-after-free in WebRTC (MFSA 2015-06)
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 2015-01-12 05:08:11 UTC 
Security researcher Mitchell Harper discovered a read-after-free in WebRTC due to the way tracks are handled. This results in a either a potentially exploitable crash or incorrect WebRTC behavior. 


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-06.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Mitchell Harper as the original reporter.
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2015-01-13 23:19:37 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2015:0046 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0046.html