Bug 1169209 (CVE-2014-1593) - CVE-2014-1593 Mozilla: Buffer overflow while parsing media content (MFSA 2014-88)
Summary: CVE-2014-1593 Mozilla: Buffer overflow while parsing media content (MFSA 2014...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2014-1593
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
urgent
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1172386
Blocks: 1167594
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-12-01 04:16 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 06:09 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-12-03 07:08:05 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:1919 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2014-12-03 04:42:51 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:1924 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: thunderbird security update 2014-12-03 03:45:41 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-12-01 04:16:52 UTC
Security researcher Abhishek Arya (Inferno) of the Google Chrome Security Team used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a buffer overflow during the parsing of media 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/mfsa2014-88.html


Acknowledgements:

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

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2014-12-02 22:46:45 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2014:1924 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1924.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2014-12-02 23:43:31 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2014:1919 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1919.html


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