Bug 1152359 (CVE-2014-1577) - CVE-2014-1577 Mozilla: Web Audio memory corruption issues with custom waveforms (MFSA 2014-76)
Summary: CVE-2014-1577 Mozilla: Web Audio memory corruption issues with custom wavefor...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2014-1577
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1144388
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-10-14 02:21 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 05:12 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-06-10 21:22:15 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:1635 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2014-10-15 06:39:52 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:1647 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: thunderbird security update 2014-10-15 20:12:14 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-10-14 02:21:02 UTC
Security researcher Holger Fuhrmannek used the used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover an out-of-bounds read issue with Web Audio when interacting with custom waveforms with invalid values. This results in a crash and could allow for the reading of random memory which may contain sensitive data, or of memory addresses that could be used in combination with another bug.

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/mfsa2014-76.html


Acknowledgements:

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

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-15 02:40:49 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2014:1635 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1635.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-15 16:12:36 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2014:1647 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1647.html


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