Using the Address Sanitizer tool, security researcher Atte Kettunen from OUSPG found an out-of-bounds read while rendering GIF format images. This could cause a non-exploitable crash and could also attempt to render normally inaccesible data as part of the image. External Reference: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-22.html Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Atte Kettunen as the original reporter.
Statement: This issue has been addressed in firefox 24.2.0-ESR and thunderbird 24.2.0-ESR via RHSA-2013:1812 and RHSA-2013:1823.