Bug 1180970 (CVE-2014-8640) - CVE-2014-8640 Mozilla: Read of uninitialized memory in Web Audio (MFSA 2015-05)
Summary: CVE-2014-8640 Mozilla: Read of uninitialized memory in Web Audio (MFSA 2015-05)
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2014-8640
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1179163
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Reported: 2015-01-12 04:23 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 07:01 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-01-12 05:47:22 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-01-12 04:23:00 UTC 
Security researcher Holger Fuhrmannek used the used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a crash in Web Audio while manipulating timelines. This allowed for the a small block of memory with an uninitialized pointer to be read. The crash it not exploitable. 


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-05.html


Acknowledgements:

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

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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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