CVE-2014-1494

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2150-1

Posted Mar 18, 2014

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 2150-1 - Benoit Jacob, Olli Pettay, Jan Varga, Jan de Mooij, Jesse Ruderman, Dan Gohman, Christoph Diehl, Gregor Wagner, Gary Kwong, Luke Wagner, Rob Fletcher and Makoto Kato discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. Atte Kettunen discovered an out-of-bounds read during WAV file decoding. An attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, arbitrary

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2014-1493, CVE-2014-1494, CVE-2014-1497, CVE-2014-1498, CVE-2014-1499, CVE-2014-1500, CVE-2014-1502, CVE-2014-1504, CVE-2014-1505, CVE-2014-1508, CVE-2014-1509, CVE-2014-1510, CVE-2014-1511, CVE-2014-1512, CVE-2014-1513, CVE-2014-1514

SHA-256 | 9fd46be9a10b917dc455961f9ebfaefd537de7a30d8809e8ea6f33183e56470c

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