Bug 1135864 (CVE-2014-1563) - CVE-2014-1563 Mozilla: Use-after-free during DOM interactions with SVG (MFSA 2014-68)
Summary: CVE-2014-1563 Mozilla: Use-after-free during DOM interactions with SVG (MFSA ...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2014-1563
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: 1134262
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-09-01 04:58 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 04:54 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-09-01 05:06:27 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-09-01 04:58:51 UTC
Security researcher Abhishek Arya (Inferno) of the Google Chrome Security Team used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a use-after-free during cycle collection. This was found in interactions with the SVG content through the document object model (DOM) with animating SVG content. This leads to a potentially exploitable crash.

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/mfsa2014-68.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, 6 and 7.


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