Bug 1095066 – CVE-2014-1522 Mozilla: Web Audio memory corruption issues (MFSA 2014-36)

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Bug 1095066 - (CVE-2014-1522) CVE-2014-1522 Mozilla: Web Audio memory corruption issues (MFSA 2014-36)

Summary:	CVE-2014-1522 Mozilla: Web Audio memory corruption issues (MFSA 2014-36)

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2014-1522

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Blocks:	1086083
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Reported:	2014-05-07 00:55 EDT by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2014-05-07 00:58 EDT (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-05-07 00:55:46 EDT

Security researcher Ash reported an out of bounds read issue with Web Audio. This issue could allow for web content to trigger crashes that are potentially exploitable. 


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-36.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Security researcher Ash as the original reporter.


Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6

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