Bug 1077016 (CVE-2014-1497) - CVE-2014-1497 Mozilla: Out of bounds read during WAV file decoding (MFSA 2014-17)
Summary: CVE-2014-1497 Mozilla: Out of bounds read during WAV file decoding (MFSA 2014...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2014-1497
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1074395
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-03-17 02:53 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 03:09 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-09-05 19:02:13 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:0310 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2014-03-19 00:34:18 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:0316 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: thunderbird security update 2014-03-19 21:26:37 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-03-17 02:53:43 UTC
Security researcher Atte Kettunen from OUSPG reported an out of bounds read during the decoding of WAV format audio files for playback. This could allow web content access to heap data as well as causing a crash.

In general this flaw cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird and Seamonkey products because audio is disabled, but is potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts.


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-17.html


Acknowledgements:

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

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2014-03-18 20:34:58 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2014:0310 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0310.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2014-03-19 17:27:07 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2014:0316 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0316.html


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