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Mozilla: Buffer overflow during Web Audio buffering for playback (MFSA 2014-57)

Published Jul 23, 2014

Description

The mozilla::dom::AudioBufferSourceNodeEngine::CopyFromInputBuffer function in Mozilla Firefox before 31.0 and Thunderbird before 31.0 does not properly allocate Web Audio buffer memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) via crafted audio content that is improperly handled during playback buffering.

Affected products

Remediation

Red Hat statement

This issue does not affect the version of thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6, or the version of firefox as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mozilla
Published Jul 23, 2014
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Jan 16, 2014
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Jul 22, 2014
ENISA EUVD
Assigner mozilla
Published Jul 23, 2014
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Exploited since n/a
EUVD-2014-1625