CVE-2014-1577

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2014-1577  

The mozilla::dom::OscillatorNodeEngine::ComputeCustom function in the Web Audio subsystem in Mozilla Firefox before 33.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.2, and Thunderbird 31.x before 31.2 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read, memory corruption, and application crash) via an invalid custom waveform that triggers a calculation of a negative frequency value.

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The mozilla::dom::OscillatorNodeEngine::ComputeCustom function in the Web Audio subsystem in Mozilla Firefox before 33.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.2, and Thunderbird 31.x before 31.2 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read, memory corruption, and application crash) via an invalid custom waveform that triggers a calculation of a negative frequency value.

Find out more about CVE-2014-1577 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (firefox) RHSA-2014:1635 2014-10-15
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (thunderbird) RHSA-2014:1647 2014-10-15
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (firefox) RHSA-2014:1635 2014-10-15
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (thunderbird) RHSA-2014:1647 2014-10-15
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (firefox) RHSA-2014:1635 2014-10-15

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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