CVE-2014-1557

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2014-07-22
CWE:
CWE-672
Bugzilla:
1121479: CVE-2014-1557 Mozilla: Crash in Skia library when scaling high quality images (MFSA 2014-64)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The ConvolveHorizontally function in Skia, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 31.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.7, and Thunderbird before 24.7, does not properly handle the discarding of image data during function execution, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by triggering prolonged image scaling, as demonstrated by scaling of a high-quality image.

Find out more about CVE-2014-1557 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 5.1
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (firefox) RHSA-2014:0919 2014-07-22
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (firefox) RHSA-2014:0919 2014-07-22
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (thunderbird) RHSA-2014:0918 2014-07-22
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) (thunderbird) RHSA-2014:0918 2014-07-22
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (thunderbird) RHSA-2014:0918 2014-07-22
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (firefox) RHSA-2014:0919 2014-07-22

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Mozilla community member John as the original reporter.

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