Bug 1236952 (CVE-2015-2729)

Summary: CVE-2015-2729 Mozilla: Out-of-bound read while computing an oscillator rendering range in Web Audio (MFSA 2015-62)
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 2015-06-30 05:01:05 UTC 
Security researcher Holger Fuhrmannek used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover an out-of-bound read while computing an oscillator rendering range in Web Audio. This could allow an attacker to infer the contents of four bytes of memory. 


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-62.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 2015-07-03 05:13:23 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-2015:1207 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1207.html
Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-07-06 04:27:23 UTC 
Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of thunderbird package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.