CVE-2014-1576

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2014-10-14
Bugzilla:
1152358: CVE-2014-1576 Mozilla: Buffer overflow during CSS manipulation (MFSA 2014-75)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Heap-based buffer overflow in the nsTransformedTextRun function in Mozilla Firefox before 33.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.2, and Thunderbird 31.x before 31.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequences that trigger changes to capitalization style.

Find out more about CVE-2014-1576 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 6 (firefox) RHSA-2014:1635 2014-10-15
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (firefox) RHSA-2014:1635 2014-10-15
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (firefox) RHSA-2014:1635 2014-10-15

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 thunderbird Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 thunderbird Will not fix

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Atte Kettunen as the original reporter.

External References

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