CVE-2014-1593

Impact:
Critical
Public Date:
2014-12-02
CWE:
CWE-120
Bugzilla:
1169209: CVE-2014-1593 Mozilla: Buffer overflow while parsing media content (MFSA 2014-88)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Stack-based buffer overflow in the mozilla::FileBlockCache::Read function in Mozilla Firefox before 34.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.3, Thunderbird before 31.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.31 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted media content.

Find out more about CVE-2014-1593 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6.8
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
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 5 (thunderbird) RHSA-2014:1924 2014-12-02
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (firefox) RHSA-2014:1919 2014-12-02
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (firefox) RHSA-2014:1919 2014-12-02
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (firefox) RHSA-2014:1919 2014-12-02
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (thunderbird) RHSA-2014:1924 2014-12-02

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 thunderbird Affected

Acknowledgements

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

External References

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