Bug 1180970 – CVE-2014-8640 Mozilla: Read of uninitialized memory in Web Audio (MFSA 2015-05)

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Bug 1180970 - (CVE-2014-8640) CVE-2014-8640 Mozilla: Read of uninitialized memory in Web Audio (MFSA 2015-05)

Summary:	CVE-2014-8640 Mozilla: Read of uninitialized memory in Web Audio (MFSA 2015-05)

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2014-8640

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

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Reported:	2015-01-11 23:23 EST by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2015-01-15 04:25 EST (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2015-01-12 00:47:22 EST
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-01-11 23:23:00 EST

Security researcher Holger Fuhrmannek used the used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a crash in Web Audio while manipulating timelines. This allowed for the a small block of memory with an uninitialized pointer to be read. The crash it not exploitable. 


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-05.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Holger Fuhrmannek as the original reporter.

Statement:

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

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