Bug 1095070 (CVE-2014-1525) - CVE-2014-1525 Mozilla: Use-after-free in the Text Track Manager for HTML video (MFSA 2014-39)
Summary: CVE-2014-1525 Mozilla: Use-after-free in the Text Track Manager for HTML vide...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2014-1525
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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urgent
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1086083
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Reported: 2014-05-07 05:00 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 03:36 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-05-07 05:02:04 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-05-07 05:00:19 UTC 
Using the Address Sanitizer tool, security researcher Abhishek Arya (Inferno) of the Google Chrome Security Team found a use-after-free in the Text Track Manager while processing HTML video. This was caused by inconsistent garbage collection of Text Track Manager variables and results in a potentially exploitable crash. 


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-39.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Abhishek Arya 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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