Bug 1092660 (CVE-2014-1523) - CVE-2014-1523 Mozilla: Out of bounds read while decoding JPG images (MFSA-2014-37)
Summary: CVE-2014-1523 Mozilla: Out of bounds read while decoding JPG images (MFSA-201...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2014-1523
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1086083
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-04-29 16:46 UTC by Vincent Danen
Modified: 2023-05-12 03:28 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: firefox 24.5
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2014-05-07 05:20:07 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:0448 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2014-04-30 02:45:40 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:0449 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: thunderbird security update 2014-04-30 02:15:23 UTC

Description Vincent Danen 2014-04-29 16:46:38 UTC 
Security researcher Abhishek Arya (Inferno) of the Google Chrome Security Team used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a fixed offset out of bounds read issue while decoding specifically formatted JPG format images. This causes a non-exploitable crash.


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-37.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Abhishek Arya as the original reporter.
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2014-04-29 22:15:52 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2014:0449 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0449.html
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2014-04-29 22:46:23 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2014:0448 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0448.html
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