Security researcher Aki Helin used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover an out-of-bounds read during playback of a malformed MP3 format audio file which switches sample formats. This could trigger a potentially exploitable crash or the reading of out-of-bounds memory content in some circumstances. External Reference: https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-80.html Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Aki Helin as the original reporter.
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2015:1586 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1586.html