Mozilla Firefox prior to 35.0 on Windows allows remote malicious users to bypass the Gecko Media Plugin (GMP) sandbox protection mechanism by leveraging access to the GMP process, as demonstrated by the OpenH264 plugin's process.
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Nine flaws scrubbed out
Mozilla has crushed nine bugs, some rather dangerous, in the latest version of its flagship browser. The fixes include a patch for a critical sandbox escape (CVE-2014-8643) in the Gecko Media Plugin used for h.264 video playback affecting Windows machines (but not OS X or Linux). Another critical hole addressed a read-after-free flaw (CVE-2014-8641) in WebRTC that affected Firefox and SeaMonkey and pertains to the way tracks are handled, leading to an exploitable crash or incorrect behaviour. A ...