Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2012-92
Buffer overflow while rendering GIF images
- Announced
- November 20, 2012
- Reporter
- Atte Kettunen
- Impact
- Critical
- Products
- Firefox, Firefox ESR, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird, Thunderbird ESR
- Fixed in
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- Firefox 17
- Firefox ESR 10.0.11
- SeaMonkey 2.14
- Thunderbird 17
- Thunderbird ESR 10.0.11
Description
Security researcher Atte Kettunen from OUSPG used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a buffer overflow while rendering GIF format images. This issue is potentially exploitable and could lead to arbitrary code execution.
References
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