Bug 1152359 – CVE-2014-1577 Mozilla: Web Audio memory corruption issues with custom waveforms (MFSA 2014-76)

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Bug 1152359 - (CVE-2014-1577) CVE-2014-1577 Mozilla: Web Audio memory corruption issues with custom waveforms (MFSA 2014-76)

Summary:	CVE-2014-1577 Mozilla: Web Audio memory corruption issues with custom wavefor...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2014-1577

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

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Reported:	2014-10-13 22:21 EDT by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2016-06-10 17:22 EDT (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2014:1635	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security update	2014-10-15 02:39:52 EDT
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2014:1647	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: thunderbird security update	2014-10-15 16:12:14 EDT

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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-10-13 22:21:02 EDT

Security researcher Holger Fuhrmannek used the used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover an out-of-bounds read issue with Web Audio when interacting with custom waveforms with invalid values. This results in a crash and could allow for the reading of random memory which may contain sensitive data, or of memory addresses that could be used in combination with another bug.

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/mfsa2014-76.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 2014-10-14 22:40:49 EDT

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-2014:1635 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1635.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-15 12:12:36 EDT

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2014:1647 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1647.html

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