Out-of-bounds write with WebM video

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2014-1578  

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2014-77

Out-of-bounds write with WebM video

Announced
October 14, 2014
Reporter
Abhishek Arya
Impact
Critical
Products
Firefox, Firefox ESR, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird
Fixed in
  • Firefox 33
  • Firefox ESR 31.2
  • SeaMonkey 2.30
  • Thunderbird 31.2

Description

Using the Address Sanitizer tool, security researcher Abhishek Arya (Inferno) of the Google Chrome Security Team found an out-of-bounds write when buffering WebM format video containing frames with invalid tile sizes. This can lead to a potentially exploitable crash during WebM video playback.

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.

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